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Author: Martin Maechler <[email protected]>
Commit: Martin Maechler <[email protected]>
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Changes and New Features in 15.09:
- * ESS[R]: The indentation logic has been refactored. It should be
+ • ESS[R]: The indentation logic has been refactored. It should be
faster, more consistent and more flexible. There are three types
- of indentation settings, those starting with 'ess-offset-' give the
- actual offsets, those starting with 'ess-indent-' are control
- (commonly Boolean) variables, and those starting with 'ess-align-'
+ of indentation settings, those starting with ‘ess-offset-’ give the
+ actual offsets, those starting with ‘ess-indent-’ are control
+ (commonly Boolean) variables, and those starting with ‘ess-align-’
are vertical alignment overrides which inhibit default offsets in
- specific situations. See 'ess-style-alist' for detailed
+ specific situations. See ‘ess-style-alist’ for detailed
description of the new indentation system and provided default
indentation styles.
- * ESS[R]: Deprecation of old indentation settings. As a consequence
- of the indentation re-factoring 'ess-brace-imaginary-offset',
- 'ess-expression-offset' and all delimiter-specific offsets are
+ • ESS[R]: Deprecation of old indentation settings. As a consequence
+ of the indentation re-factoring ‘ess-brace-imaginary-offset’,
+ ‘ess-expression-offset’ and all delimiter-specific offsets are
deprecated. The settings for indentation of continued statements
- have been replaced by 'ess-offset-continuations'. It can be set to
- either 'cascade' or 'straight' (the default).
- 'ess-arg-function-offset' has been replaced by
- 'ess-indent-from-lhs' and has been generalised to assignments.
+ have been replaced by ‘ess-offset-continuations’. It can be set to
+ either ‘cascade’ or ‘straight’ (the default).
+ ‘ess-arg-function-offset’ has been replaced by
+ ‘ess-indent-from-lhs’ and has been generalised to assignments.
This setting now works with both statement blocks and expressions
- and only takes effect for offsets set to 'prev-call' and
- 'open-delim' in order to produce a consistent indentation.
+ and only takes effect for offsets set to ‘prev-call’ and
+ ‘open-delim’ in order to produce a consistent indentation.
- * ESS: A test framework has been set up.
+ • ESS: A test framework has been set up.
- * ESS[R]: A new RStudio style is provided to mimic as closely as
+ • ESS[R]: A new RStudio style is provided to mimic as closely as
possible R files indented via RStudio. To reproduce the setup of
some of the RStudio users, the RStudio- style with
- 'ess-offset-arguments' set to 'prev-line' is also provided. In
+ ‘ess-offset-arguments’ set to ‘prev-line’ is also provided. In
addition, the new RRR+ style is equivalent to RRR except it indents
blocks in function calls relatively to the opening delimiter. This
style does not try to save horizontal space and produces more
indentation.
- * ESS[R]: Roxygen fields will now be indented on paragraph refilling
+ • ESS[R]: Roxygen fields will now be indented on paragraph refilling
in order to make the documentation more readable. You can also
- refill commented lines in the 'examples' field without squashing
+ refill commented lines in the ‘examples’ field without squashing
the surrounding code in the comments.
- * ESS[R]: ESS can now format your code! This is controlled through
- the settings 'ess-fill-calls' and 'ess-fill-continuations'. When
- activated, '(fill-paragraph)' formats your calls and your
+ • ESS[R]: ESS can now format your code! This is controlled through
+ the settings ‘ess-fill-calls’ and ‘ess-fill-continuations’. When
+ activated, ‘(fill-paragraph)’ formats your calls and your
formulas/continuations while making sure they don't go past
- 'fill-column'. Repeated refills cycle through different styles
+ ‘fill-column’. Repeated refills cycle through different styles
(see the docstrings for more details). By default, the refilled
- region blinks. Set 'ess-blink-filling' to nil to prevent this.
+ region blinks. Set ‘ess-blink-filling’ to nil to prevent this.
- * ESS[R]: Fix occasional missing error location fontification in
+ • ESS[R]: Fix occasional missing error location fontification in
inferior buffers.
- * ESS[R]: ess-developer now correctly assigned the environment of new
+ • ESS[R]: ess-developer now correctly assigned the environment of new
functions to the package namespace.
- * ESS[Julia]: ?[topic] now works in the *julia* buffer. Note that
- support for editing Julia code now depends on 'julia-mode.el' from
+ • ESS[Julia]: ?[topic] now works in the *julia* buffer. Note that
+ support for editing Julia code now depends on ‘julia-mode.el’ from
the Julia project. If you install ESS from the official
- tarball/zip file, 'julia-mode.el' is already included. Otherwise,
- if you install ESS by running 'make', then the latest version of
- 'julia-mode.el' is downloaded (and so you need an active internet
+ tarball/zip file, ‘julia-mode.el’ is already included. Otherwise,
+ if you install ESS by running ‘make’, then the latest version of
+ ‘julia-mode.el’ is downloaded (and so you need an active internet
connection to install) during the installation process.
- Alternatively, if you run ESS without running 'make', then ensure
- that you have the 'julia-mode.el', which you can get easily from
+ Alternatively, if you run ESS without running ‘make’, then ensure
+ that you have the ‘julia-mode.el’, which you can get easily from
MELPA for example.
- * iESS: For naming inferior processes, ESS can use 'projectile''s
+ • iESS: For naming inferior processes, ESS can use ‘projectile’'s
project root and it does so when
- 'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name-function' is set to
- 'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name:projectile-or-simple' as by default, or
+ ‘ess-gen-proc-buffer-name-function’ is set to
+ ‘ess-gen-proc-buffer-name:projectile-or-simple’ as by default, or
to another value beginning with
- 'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name:projectile-*'.
+ ‘ess-gen-proc-buffer-name:projectile-*’.
Changes and New Features in 15.03-1:
- * ESS[R]: An indentation bug has been fixed (github issue 163)
- * ESS[R]: On windows, if 'ess-prefer-higher-bit' is non-nil (the
+ • ESS[R]: An indentation bug has been fixed (github issue 163)
+ • ESS[R]: On windows, if 'ess-prefer-higher-bit' is non-nil (the
default), then R-newest will try to run a 64 bit (rather than 32
bit) version of R.
Changes and New Features in 15.03:
- * ESS[R]: Full native support for 'company-mode'.
- * ESS[R]: More efficient caching algorithm for R completion.
- * ESS: New offset variable 'ess-close-paren-offset' to control the
+ • ESS[R]: Full native support for 'company-mode'.
+ • ESS[R]: More efficient caching algorithm for R completion.
+ • ESS: New offset variable 'ess-close-paren-offset' to control the
indentation of the closing parentheses.
- * ESS[R]: Ask for CRAN mirror only once per emacs session.
- * ESS[R]: Detect 'library' and 'require' calls for better completion
+ • ESS[R]: Ask for CRAN mirror only once per emacs session.
+ • ESS[R]: Detect ‘library’ and ‘require’ calls for better completion
caching.
- * Buffer display is now customizable ('ess-show-buffer-action').
- * Use 'y-or-n-p' instead of 'yes-or-no-p' throughout.
- * More support for ODS in ess-sas-graph-view.
- * Makefiles are now both UNIX and GNU friendly.
- * ESS[R]: Simplify directory lookup in 'ess-developer' (#137).
- * Make closed paren indentation consistent
+ • Buffer display is now customizable (‘ess-show-buffer-action’).
+ • Use ‘y-or-n-p’ instead of ‘yes-or-no-p’ throughout.
+ • More support for ODS in ess-sas-graph-view.
+ • Makefiles are now both UNIX and GNU friendly.
+ • ESS[R]: Simplify directory lookup in ‘ess-developer’ (#137).
+ • Make closed paren indentation consistent
Bug Fixes in 15.03:
- * Fix open brace indentation bug (#27 in ess/R-ESS-bugs.R).
- * Fix git version lookup
- * Don't check directory modtime in R dialect.
- * Declare all ess macros for edebug.
- * Add 'ess-smart-comma' to eldoc message functions.
- * Inform users when retrieving RDA aliases.
- * Line ending in '~' is also a continuation line.
- * Filing roxy paragraphs works as expected now.
- * In 'ess-developer-add-package', remove incorrect 'wait' argument
- from 'ess-get-words-from-vector' call.
- * Fix #96, #117, #120, #125, #134, #137.
- * Fix ess-quit-r. Call base::q() even if it is masked.
- * Fix 'ess-show-buffer' to always display the buffer in another
+ • Fix open brace indentation bug (#27 in ess/R-ESS-bugs.R).
+ • Fix git version lookup
+ • Don't check directory modtime in R dialect.
+ • Declare all ess macros for edebug.
+ • Add ‘ess-smart-comma’ to eldoc message functions.
+ • Inform users when retrieving RDA aliases.
+ • Line ending in '~' is also a continuation line.
+ • Filing roxy paragraphs works as expected now.
+ • In ‘ess-developer-add-package’, remove incorrect 'wait' argument
+ from ‘ess-get-words-from-vector’ call.
+ • Fix #96, #117, #120, #125, #134, #137.
+ • Fix ess-quit-r. Call base::q() even if it is masked.
+ • Fix 'ess-show-buffer' to always display the buffer in another
window.
- * Makefile: Fix cd bug for directories with spaces in them
- * 'ess-kill-buffer-and-go' modified to not restart R
+ • Makefile: Fix cd bug for directories with spaces in them
+ • ‘ess-kill-buffer-and-go’ modified to not restart R
Changes / Selected Bug Fixes in 14.09:
- * ESS[Julia]: Executable is changed to 'julia'.
- * ESS[Julia]: Completion and help system was adjusted to Julia
+ • ESS[Julia]: Executable is changed to ‘julia’.
+ • ESS[Julia]: Completion and help system was adjusted to Julia
v.0.3.0. Julia v.0.2.x is no more supported.
- * ESS[R]: Running R with 'gdb' debugger now works as expected
- * iESS: Inferior ESS buffers are now derived from 'comint-mode'
- * ESS[R]: 'ess-execute-screen-options' uses correct screen width in
+ • ESS[R]: Running R with ‘gdb’ debugger now works as expected
+ • iESS: Inferior ESS buffers are now derived from ‘comint-mode’
+ • ESS[R]: ‘ess-execute-screen-options’ uses correct screen width in
terminal sessions
- * ESS: 'ess-build-tags-for-directory' works when no TAGS file name
+ • ESS: ‘ess-build-tags-for-directory’ works when no TAGS file name
was provided
- * ESS: 'ess-offset-statement-continued' is now respected everywhere
- except inside of the 'if' test condition.
- * ESS: New variable 'ess-offset-statement-first-continued' for
+ • ESS: ‘ess-offset-statement-continued’ is now respected everywhere
+ except inside of the ‘if’ test condition.
+ • ESS: New variable ‘ess-offset-statement-first-continued’ for
indentation of the first line in multiline statements.
- * ESSR: Starting ',' in multiline statements indentation is now
+ • ESSR: Starting ‘,’ in multiline statements indentation is now
ignored to achieve a more pleasant alignment.
- * ESSR: Improved behavior of 'RET' in roxygen blocks.
- * ESS[R]: command cleaning with 'C-u C-u C-y' was broken with lines
+ • ESSR: Improved behavior of ‘RET’ in roxygen blocks.
+ • ESS[R]: command cleaning with ‘C-u C-u C-y’ was broken with lines
containing " + "
- * ESS[R]: fixed "empty watch window bug"
- * ESS[R]: don't ask for help location on ac-quick-help (request of
+ • ESS[R]: fixed "empty watch window bug"
+ • ESS[R]: don't ask for help location on ac-quick-help (request of
github #81)
- * ESS[R]: "importClassesFrom" and "importMethodsFrom" were added to
+ • ESS[R]: "importClassesFrom" and "importMethodsFrom" were added to
the list of two-parameter roxygen commands
- * ESS[R]: fix vignetes display and hyperlinks (were broken in
+ • ESS[R]: fix vignetes display and hyperlinks (were broken in
13.09-1)
- * ESS[Julia]: recognize function names ending with !
- * ESS[Julia]: fix indentation of "for" comprehension syntax within
+ • ESS[Julia]: recognize function names ending with !
+ • ESS[Julia]: fix indentation of "for" comprehension syntax within
brackets.
Changes / Selected Bug Fixes in 13.09-1:
- * ess-remote and TRAMP: R support code is now downloaded in binary
+ • ess-remote and TRAMP: R support code is now downloaded in binary
form instead of being injected from local machine. The R code is
- stored in '~/.config/ESSR/' directory on the remote machine
- * TRAMP: PAGER environment variable is now correctly set to
- 'inferior-ess-pager'
- * retrieval of help topics on remote machines is fixed
- * org-babel: source references of R code executed from org files
+ stored in ‘~/.config/ESSR/’ directory on the remote machine
+ • TRAMP: PAGER environment variable is now correctly set to
+ ‘inferior-ess-pager’
+ • retrieval of help topics on remote machines is fixed
+ • org-babel: source references of R code executed from org files
correctly point to source references in original org files (version
8.2.1 or higher of org-mode is required for this feature)
- * 'ess-execute' is now bound to 'C-c C-e C-e' in 'ess-extra-map'.
- * completion works again in 'ess-execute'
- * ESS[R]: 'head' and 'tail' methods were replaced by '.ess_htsummary'
- in 'ess-R-describe-object-at-point-commands'
- * ESS[roxygen]: evaluation commands now work in roxygen blocks.
+ • ‘ess-execute’ is now bound to ‘C-c C-e C-e’ in ‘ess-extra-map’.
+ • completion works again in ‘ess-execute’
+ • ESS[R]: ‘head’ and ‘tail’ methods were replaced by ‘.ess_htsummary’
+ in ‘ess-R-describe-object-at-point-commands’
+ • ESS[roxygen]: evaluation commands now work in roxygen blocks.
Leading comments are automatically removed before the evaluation
- * ESS[transcript]: 'Clean Region' now works with multiline
- statements; 'ess-transcript-clean-region' etc. correctly treat
+ • ESS[transcript]: 'Clean Region' now works with multiline
+ statements; ‘ess-transcript-clean-region’ etc. correctly treat
multiline statements, i.e., no longer forgets the lines typically
preceded by '+'
- * ESS[SAS]: Three features/fixes with special thanks to Matthew
+ • ESS[SAS]: Three features/fixes with special thanks to Matthew
Fidler https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/pulls/mlf176f2
(https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/pulls/mlf176f2). Turn on SAS log
mode when appropriate. Indent comments and CARDS statement more
appropriately.
- * ESS[SAS]: 'ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle' default returns to 'nil'
- * ESS[R]: support for 'prettify-symbols-mode': contribution from
+ • ESS[SAS]: ‘ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle’ default returns to ‘nil’
+ • ESS[R]: support for ‘prettify-symbols-mode’: contribution from
Rudiger Sonderfeld <https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/pull/65>
- * ESS[SWV]: knitr now evaluates in the current frame
- * ESS[developer]: ess-developer doesn't kill open DESCRIPTION files
+ • ESS[SWV]: knitr now evaluates in the current frame
+ • ESS[developer]: ess-developer doesn't kill open DESCRIPTION files
anymore
- * ESS[roxygen]: 'ess-roxy-preview-HTML' is now on 'C-c C-o C-w' and
- 'ess-roxy-preview-text' is now on 'C-c C-o C-t'
- * ESS: installation with 'make install' was simplified and should
+ • ESS[roxygen]: ‘ess-roxy-preview-HTML’ is now on ‘C-c C-o C-w’ and
+ ‘ess-roxy-preview-text’ is now on ‘C-c C-o C-t’
+ • ESS: installation with ‘make install’ was simplified and should
work out of the box on most *nix systems
- * ESS installation instructions simplified
- * fixed font-lock bug introduced in 13.09 that was causing very slow
+ • ESS installation instructions simplified
+ • fixed font-lock bug introduced in 13.09 that was causing very slow
process output
Changes/New Features in 13.09:
- * font-lock in process buffers doesn't "spill" over prompts. Missing
+ • font-lock in process buffers doesn't "spill" over prompts. Missing
closing string delimiters should not cause wrong fontification of
the following command input.
- * ESS[julia]: full features M-TAB completion and auto-complete
+ • ESS[julia]: full features M-TAB completion and auto-complete
support, which now works for modules, structures and data types.
- * ESS[julia]: a much better eldoc showing arguments of methods and
+ • ESS[julia]: a much better eldoc showing arguments of methods and
data type constructors
- * ESS-developer:
- - ESS-developer work-flow pattern has been streamlined:
+ • ESS-developer:
+ − ESS-developer work-flow pattern has been streamlined:
ESS-developer is now automatically activated on per-file basis
if the file is part of a developed package
- 'ess-developer-packages'. The old behavior (activation on
- per-process basis) is still available on 'M-x ess-developer'
+ ‘ess-developer-packages’. The old behavior (activation on
+ per-process basis) is still available on ‘M-x ess-developer’
in a process buffer.
- - integration with 'devtools' package. New command
- 'ess-developer-load-package' calls 'load_all' on the package
- containing current file. 'ess-developer-add-package' now
+ − integration with ‘devtools’ package. New command
+ ‘ess-developer-load-package’ calls ‘load_all’ on the package
+ containing current file. ‘ess-developer-add-package’ now
offers IDO menu completions with available loading methods,
- currently 'library', and 'load_all'. Loading command can be
- customized with 'ess-developer-load-on-add-commands'.
- * 'TAB' now indents region if region is active (a contribution of
+ currently ‘library’, and ‘load_all’. Loading command can be
+ customized with ‘ess-developer-load-on-add-commands’.
+ • ‘TAB’ now indents region if region is active (a contribution of
Matthew Fidler in pull #41)
- * 'M-x ess-version' now reports full loading path and recognizes git
+ • ‘M-x ess-version’ now reports full loading path and recognizes git
and ELPA versions.
- * warning and error keyword are now highlighted with
- 'font-lock-warning-face' as they should be, (for quite some time
+ • warning and error keyword are now highlighted with
+ ‘font-lock-warning-face’ as they should be, (for quite some time
these keywords have been hijacked by compilation mode
fontification).
- * eldoc: Eldoc now recognizes multiple processes. If current process
+ • eldoc: Eldoc now recognizes multiple processes. If current process
is busy, or current buffer is not associated with a process, eldoc
picks its completions from the first available free process.
- * org-babel: evaluation is now org-friendly
- * help: new help buffers now try to reuse ess-help buffers. This
- behavior is controlled by 'ess-help-reuse-window' custom variable.
- * help: ?foo pops IDO menu on multiple help files (so far it worked
- only for 'C-c C-v')
- * remote evaluation is considerably faster now on slow connections
- * ESS[R] tracebug R source references regular expressions are
+ • org-babel: evaluation is now org-friendly
+ • help: new help buffers now try to reuse ess-help buffers. This
+ behavior is controlled by ‘ess-help-reuse-window’ custom variable.
+ • help: ?foo pops IDO menu on multiple help files (so far it worked
+ only for ‘C-c C-v’)
+ • remote evaluation is considerably faster now on slow connections
+ • ESS[R] tracebug R source references regular expressions are
(mostly) language agnostic.
- * 'ess-function-call-face' inherits from
- 'font-lock-function-name-face' rather than
- 'font-lock-builtin-face'.
- * 'ess-inject-source' now accepts 'function-and-buffer' option.
- * Documentation: The "New Features" section (and 'NEWS') now
+ • ‘ess-function-call-face’ inherits from
+ ‘font-lock-function-name-face’ rather than
+ ‘font-lock-builtin-face’.
+ • ‘ess-inject-source’ now accepts ‘function-and-buffer’ option.
+ • Documentation: The "New Features" section (and ‘NEWS’) now
represent recent changes: within the last year or so. All changes
- can be found in the new news.html (news.html) (or 'NEWS' and
- 'ONEWS').
- * ESS[R] 'ess-rep-regexp' should no longer inf.loop (rarely!), and
- hence 'M-x ess-fix-miscellaneous' should neither.
+ can be found in the new news.html (news.html) (or ‘NEWS’ and
+ ‘ONEWS’).
+ • ESS[R] ‘ess-rep-regexp’ should no longer inf.loop (rarely!), and
+ hence ‘M-x ess-fix-miscellaneous’ should neither.
Changes/New Features in 13.05:
- * ESS[gretl]: Support for 'gretl' (both editing and sub-process
+ • ESS[gretl]: Support for ‘gretl’ (both editing and sub-process
interaction). A contribution of Ahmadou Dicko.
- * ESS: process output display is 4-10 times faster due to new caching
+ • ESS: process output display is 4-10 times faster due to new caching
and only occasional emacs re-display (for the moment this
- functionality is available only when 'ess-tracebug' is active).
- * ESS: 'C-c `' is now bound to 'ess-show-traceback' and 'C-c ~' is
- bound to 'ess-show-call-stack'.
- * ESS[R]: ESS stores function in 'ESSR' environment to avoid kludging
+ functionality is available only when ‘ess-tracebug’ is active).
+ • ESS: ‘C-c `’ is now bound to ‘ess-show-traceback’ and ‘C-c ~’ is
+ bound to ‘ess-show-call-stack’.
+ • ESS[R]: ESS stores function in 'ESSR' environment to avoid kludging
users' global environment and accidental deletion.
- * ESS[R]: new variable 'ess-swv-processing-command' to control
+ • ESS[R]: new variable ‘ess-swv-processing-command’ to control
weaving and tangling.
- * ESS[R]: 'ess-default-style' has been changed (from 'DEFAULT') to
- 'RRR'. Use something like '(setq ess-default-style 'DEFAULT)' or
- '(setq ess-indent-level 2)' in your '~/.emacs' equivalent _before_
+ • ESS[R]: ‘ess-default-style’ has been changed (from ‘DEFAULT’) to
+ ‘RRR’. Use something like ‘(setq ess-default-style 'DEFAULT)’ or
+ ‘(setq ess-indent-level 2)’ in your ‘~/.emacs’ equivalent _before_
loading ESS, if you do not like this new "incompatible" default
style.
- * ESS[julia]: ESS stores its functions in 'ESS' module.
- * ESS[julia]: Eldoc is now supported in julia modes
- * ESS[julia]: Adjusted error reference detection and interactive help
+ • ESS[julia]: ESS stores its functions in 'ESS' module.
+ • ESS[julia]: Eldoc is now supported in julia modes
+ • ESS[julia]: Adjusted error reference detection and interactive help
to julia internal changes
- * ESS[R]: 'ess-use-tracebug''s default has been changed to 't'. Set
+ • ESS[R]: ‘ess-use-tracebug’'s default has been changed to ‘t’. Set
it to nil if you want to keep the previous behavior.
- * ESS[tracebug]: Electric debug keys have been removed [breaking
- change] The functionality was replaced with 'ess-debug-minor-mode'
- and 'ess-debug-minor-mode-map'.
- * ESS[tracebug]: 'ess-tracebug-map' is an alias to 'ess-dev-map' 'C-c
- C-t'.
- * ESS[tracebug]: 'ess-bp-toggle-state' ('C-c C-t o') can now be used
+ • ESS[tracebug]: Electric debug keys have been removed [breaking
+ change] The functionality was replaced with ‘ess-debug-minor-mode’
+ and ‘ess-debug-minor-mode-map’.
+ • ESS[tracebug]: ‘ess-tracebug-map’ is an alias to ‘ess-dev-map’ ‘C-c
+ C-t’.
+ • ESS[tracebug]: ‘ess-bp-toggle-state’ (‘C-c C-t o’) can now be used
during the debug session to toggle breakpoints on the fly
(suggestion by Ross Boylan).
- * ESS[tracebug]: 'ess-debug-flag-for-debugging' and
- 'ess-debug-unflag-for-debugging' work correctly from the debugging
+ • ESS[tracebug]: ‘ess-debug-flag-for-debugging’ and
+ ‘ess-debug-unflag-for-debugging’ work correctly from the debugging
contexts. These commands also recognize non-exported functions for
- the packages listed in 'ess-developer-packages' ('C-c C-t C-a').
+ the packages listed in ‘ess-developer-packages’ (‘C-c C-t C-a’).
- * ESS[R]: Eldoc (activated by 'ess-use-eldoc') has become more
+ • ESS[R]: Eldoc (activated by ‘ess-use-eldoc’) has become more
sophisticated, and hence also more intruding in the interface
between the Statistics software, e.g., R, and the user.
- Note that you can turn off ElDoc, by placing '(setq ess-use-eldoc
- nil)' in your '~/.emacs' file, prior to loading ESS,
+ Note that you can turn off ElDoc, by placing ‘(setq ess-use-eldoc
+ nil)’ in your ‘~/.emacs’ file, prior to loading ESS,
- * ESS[SAS]: long over-looked 'SAS-mode-hook' appears!
- * ESS[SAS]: 'ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle' now defaults to 't' since
- 'sas-indent-line' is still broken, i.e. 'TAB' is now bound to
- 'ess-sas-tab-to-tab-stop' by default
+ • ESS[SAS]: long over-looked ‘SAS-mode-hook’ appears!
+ • ESS[SAS]: ‘ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle’ now defaults to ‘t’ since
+ ‘sas-indent-line’ is still broken, i.e. ‘TAB’ is now bound to
+ ‘ess-sas-tab-to-tab-stop’ by default
Changes/Bug Fixes in 12.09-2:
- * ESS: new 'ess-switch-to-end-of-proc-buffer' variable that controls
- whether 'C-c C-z' switches to the end of process buffer. The
- default is 't'. You can use prefix argument to 'C-c C-z' to toggle
+ • ESS: new ‘ess-switch-to-end-of-proc-buffer’ variable that controls
+ whether ‘C-c C-z’ switches to the end of process buffer. The
+ default is ‘t’. You can use prefix argument to ‘C-c C-z’ to toggle
this variable.
- * ESS: fix in 'ess-eval-linewise' that was causing emacs to hang
- during R debugging with 'ess-eval-visibly' equal to 't'.
- * ESS: fix in 'ess-eval-linewise' that was causing emacs to recenter
+ • ESS: fix in ‘ess-eval-linewise’ that was causing emacs to hang
+ during R debugging with ‘ess-eval-visibly’ equal to ‘t’.
+ • ESS: fix in ‘ess-eval-linewise’ that was causing emacs to recenter
the prompt in visible window
- * ESS[tracebug]: A better handling of "Selection" prompts and debug
+ • ESS[tracebug]: A better handling of "Selection" prompts and debug
related singlekey commands.
- * ESS: fix a bug in 'ess-switch-process' that was causing '*new*'
+ • ESS: fix a bug in ‘ess-switch-process’ that was causing ‘*new*’
selection to fail.
- * ESS[R]: Solve missing 'ess-local-process-name' bug in R-dired.
- * ESS[SWV]: 'ess-swv-PDF' doesn't ask for a command to run if there
- is only one command in 'ess-swv-pdflatex-commands'.
- * ESS[SWV]: 'ess-swv-weave' gained an universal argument to allow for
+ • ESS[R]: Solve missing ‘ess-local-process-name’ bug in R-dired.
+ • ESS[SWV]: ‘ess-swv-PDF’ doesn't ask for a command to run if there
+ is only one command in ‘ess-swv-pdflatex-commands’.
+ • ESS[SWV]: ‘ess-swv-weave’ gained an universal argument to allow for
an interactive choice between available weavers (sweave, knitr).
- * ESS: 'ess-eval-*-and-step' functions go to next empty line at eob,
+ • ESS: ‘ess-eval-*-and-step’ functions go to next empty line at eob,
instead of staying at the last line.
Changes/New Features in 12.09-1:
- * ESS _Breaking Changes in Keys_:
-
- - New keymaps: 'ess-doc-map' bound to 'C-c C-d'; 'ess-extra-map'
- bound to 'C-c C-e'; 'ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer' was
- moved on 'C-c C-e C-d'
- - roxygen map was moved on 'C-c C-o' and 'ess-roxy-update-entry'
- now resides on 'C-c C-o C-o'
- - ess-handy-commands is not bound anymore
- - 'ess-dev-map' (including 'ess-tracebug' and 'ess-developer')
- moved on 'C-c C-t'
- - 'C-c C-y' is deprecated in favor of 'C-c C-z C-z'
- * ESS[R] new command 'ess-describe-object-at-point' bound to 'C-c C-d
- C-e' (repeat 'C-e' or 'e' to cycle). It was inspired by Erik
- Iverson's 'ess-R-object-tooltip'. Customize
- 'ess-describe-at-point-method' to use tooltip instead of an
+ • ESS _Breaking Changes in Keys_:
+
+ − New keymaps: ‘ess-doc-map’ bound to ‘C-c C-d’; ‘ess-extra-map’
+ bound to ‘C-c C-e’; ‘ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer’ was
+ moved on ‘C-c C-e C-d’
+ − roxygen map was moved on ‘C-c C-o’ and ‘ess-roxy-update-entry’
+ now resides on ‘C-c C-o C-o’
+ − ess-handy-commands is not bound anymore
+ − ‘ess-dev-map’ (including ‘ess-tracebug’ and ‘ess-developer’)
+ moved on ‘C-c C-t’
+ − ‘C-c C-y’ is deprecated in favor of ‘C-c C-z C-z’
+ • ESS[R] new command ‘ess-describe-object-at-point’ bound to ‘C-c C-d
+ C-e’ (repeat ‘C-e’ or ‘e’ to cycle). It was inspired by Erik
+ Iverson's ‘ess-R-object-tooltip’. Customize
+ ‘ess-describe-at-point-method’ to use tooltip instead of an
electric buffer.
- * ESS: New command 'ess-build-tags-for-directory' bound to 'C-c C-e
- C-t' for building dialect specific tag tables. After building tags
- use 'M-.' to navigate to function and objects definitions. By
- default 'C-c C-e C-t' builds tags based on imenu regular
- expressions and also include other common languages '.c, .o, .cpp'
- etc. But it relies on external 'find' and 'etags' commands. If
- 'ess-build-tags-command' is defined (for 'R'), the inferior process
+ • ESS: New command ‘ess-build-tags-for-directory’ bound to ‘C-c C-e
+ C-t’ for building dialect specific tag tables. After building tags
+ use ‘M-.’ to navigate to function and objects definitions. By
+ default ‘C-c C-e C-t’ builds tags based on imenu regular
+ expressions and also include other common languages ‘.c, .o, .cpp’
+ etc. But it relies on external ‘find’ and ‘etags’ commands. If
+ ‘ess-build-tags-command’ is defined (for ‘R’), the inferior process
is asked to build tags instead.
- * ESS: 'ess-switch-process' offers '*new*' alternative to start a new
+ • ESS: ‘ess-switch-process’ offers ‘*new*’ alternative to start a new
process instead of switching to one of the currently running
processes.
- * ESS: Switching between processes ('C-c C-s') uses buffer names
- instead of the internal process names. Use 'M-x rename-buffer'
+ • ESS: Switching between processes (‘C-c C-s’) uses buffer names
+ instead of the internal process names. Use ‘M-x rename-buffer’
command to conveniently rename your process buffers.
- * ESS: Process buffers can be automatically named on process creation
+ • ESS: Process buffers can be automatically named on process creation
according to user specified scheme. Default schemes are *proc*,
- *proc:dir* and *proc:abbr-long-dir* where 'proc' stands for the
- internal process name and 'dir' stands for the directory where the
+ *proc:dir* and *proc:abbr-long-dir* where ‘proc’ stands for the
+ internal process name and ‘dir’ stands for the directory where the
process was started in. The default is *proc*. For customization
- see 'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name-function'.
- * ESS: 'ess-eval-visibly-p' is deprecated in favor of
- 'ess-eval-visibly'.
- * ESS: New evaluation pattern 'nowait'. In addition to old 'nil' and
- 't' values, 'ess-eval-visibly' accepts 'nowait' for a visible
- evaluation with no waiting for the process. See 'ess-eval-visibly'
+ see ‘ess-gen-proc-buffer-name-function’.
+ • ESS: ‘ess-eval-visibly-p’ is deprecated in favor of
+ ‘ess-eval-visibly’.
+ • ESS: New evaluation pattern ‘nowait’. In addition to old ‘nil’ and
+ ‘t’ values, ‘ess-eval-visibly’ accepts ‘nowait’ for a visible
+ evaluation with no waiting for the process. See ‘ess-eval-visibly’
for details on evaluation patterns.
- * ESS: New "Process" menu entry with process related commands and
+ • ESS: New "Process" menu entry with process related commands and
configuration
- * iESS: Process buffer is now automatically shown on errors
- * ESS: New 'ess-switch-to-inferior-or-script-buffer' command bound to
- 'C-c C-z' in both script and process buffers. If invoked form
+ • iESS: Process buffer is now automatically shown on errors
+ • ESS: New ‘ess-switch-to-inferior-or-script-buffer’ command bound to
+ ‘C-c C-z’ in both script and process buffers. If invoked form
process buffer it switches to the most recent buffer of the same
dialect. It is a single key command.
- * ESSR-help: On multiple help pages with the same name, 'C-c C-v' now
+ • ESSR-help: On multiple help pages with the same name, ‘C-c C-v’ now
asks for user resolution directly in emacs.
- * ESS[R] ess-roxy: new variable 'ess-roxy-re' for fontification of
- cases where the number of leading '#' differs from 'ess-roxy-str'.
- * ESS[R] Eldoc was considerably enhanced. It now finds hidden
+ • ESS[R] ess-roxy: new variable ‘ess-roxy-re’ for fontification of
+ cases where the number of leading ‘#’ differs from ‘ess-roxy-str’.
+ • ESS[R] Eldoc was considerably enhanced. It now finds hidden
default S3 methods and displays non-default methods' arguments
after trailing ||.
- * ESS[R]: New 'ess-display-demos' command bound to 'C-c C-d o' and
- 'C-c C-d C-o'
- * ESS: New 'ess-help-web-search' command bound to 'C-c C-d w' and
- 'C-c C-d C-w' to facilitate interactive search of web resources.
- Implemented for 'R', 'Stata' and 'Julia'. See also
- 'ess-help-web-search-command'.
- * ESS: ess-pdf-viewer-pref accepts now command line arguments
- * ESS[Rnw]: Add knitr support. Customize 'ess-swv-processor' for the
+ • ESS[R]: New ‘ess-display-demos’ command bound to ‘C-c C-d o’ and
+ ‘C-c C-d C-o’
+ • ESS: New ‘ess-help-web-search’ command bound to ‘C-c C-d w’ and
+ ‘C-c C-d C-w’ to facilitate interactive search of web resources.
+ Implemented for ‘R’, ‘Stata’ and ‘Julia’. See also
+ ‘ess-help-web-search-command’.
+ • ESS: ess-pdf-viewer-pref accepts now command line arguments
+ • ESS[Rnw]: Add knitr support. Customize ‘ess-swv-processor’ for the
default processor.
- * ESS[Rnw]: More thorough renaming of remaining 'noweb-*' to
- 'ess-noweb-*'.
- * ESS[Rnw] new commands 'ess-eval-chunk-and-step' and
- 'ess-eval-chunk' bound to 'M-n C-c' and 'M-n C-M-x' to mirror
+ • ESS[Rnw]: More thorough renaming of remaining ‘noweb-*’ to
+ ‘ess-noweb-*’.
+ • ESS[Rnw] new commands ‘ess-eval-chunk-and-step’ and
+ ‘ess-eval-chunk’ bound to ‘M-n C-c’ and ‘M-n C-M-x’ to mirror
standard ess commands in C-c map.
- * ESS[R] Auto-completion: new variable 'ess-ac-R-argument-suffix' to
+ • ESS[R] Auto-completion: new variable ‘ess-ac-R-argument-suffix’ to
customize the insertion of trailing "=". Defaults to " = ".
- * ESS[Julia]: Added index, apropos and web-search to julia.
- * ESS help: More evaluation commands were added to ess-help mode
- ('C-c C-c', 'C-M-x' etc)
+ • ESS[Julia]: Added index, apropos and web-search to julia.
+ • ESS help: More evaluation commands were added to ess-help mode
+ (‘C-c C-c’, ‘C-M-x’ etc)
Bug Fixes in 12.09-1:
- * iESShelp: Multiple help pages with the same name are properly
- handled on 'C-c C-v'
- * iESSremote: Evaluation with ESS remote no longer freezes emacs.
- * iESS: 'comint-previous-prompt' 'C-c C-p' no longer stops on
+ • iESShelp: Multiple help pages with the same name are properly
+ handled on ‘C-c C-v’
+ • iESSremote: Evaluation with ESS remote no longer freezes emacs.
+ • iESS: ‘comint-previous-prompt’ ‘C-c C-p’ no longer stops on
secondary prompt "+".
- * iESS[R], iESS(Sqpe) [S] on Windows: The 'options("editor")' is now
- initialized to 'emacsclient' instead of the previous 'gnuclient'.
- The user may need to add the line '(server-start)' to the emacs
- initialization file. 'emacsclient' has been included with emacs
+ • iESS[R], iESS(Sqpe) [S] on Windows: The ‘options("editor")’ is now
+ initialized to ‘emacsclient’ instead of the previous ‘gnuclient’.
+ The user may need to add the line ‘(server-start)’ to the emacs
+ initialization file. ‘emacsclient’ has been included with emacs
since GNU Emacs 22.1.
- * ESS[Rnw] Fixed "connection to R" bug (in 12.09 only).
- * ESS[Rnw] Explicit 'ess-swv-stangle' and 'ess-swv-sweave' functions.
- * ESS[Rnw] Fixed completion and smart underscore problems cause by
+ • ESS[Rnw] Fixed "connection to R" bug (in 12.09 only).
+ • ESS[Rnw] Explicit ‘ess-swv-stangle’ and ‘ess-swv-sweave’ functions.
+ • ESS[Rnw] Fixed completion and smart underscore problems cause by
unmatched "\"'
- * ESS[R] is more careful with the 'R' code injection. It now happens
+ • ESS[R] is more careful with the ‘R’ code injection. It now happens
only once at the start of the session.
- * ESS[R]: Fixed auto-scrolling the comint buffer on evaluation.
- * ESS[Julia]: Solve several indentation and word navigation problems.
- * ESS[Julia]: Help system works again.
+ • ESS[R]: Fixed auto-scrolling the comint buffer on evaluation.
+ • ESS[Julia]: Solve several indentation and word navigation problems.
+ • ESS[Julia]: Help system works again.
Changes/New Features in 12.09:
- * Due to XEmacs lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support
+ • Due to XEmacs lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support
of XEmacs ends with ESS 12.04-4. This decision will be re-visited
in the future as XEmacs continues to sync with GNU Emacs.
- * ESS[R]: On Windows, there is now a new customizable variable
- (currently called 'ess-directory-containing-R') to tell ESS where
- to look for the 'Rterm.exe' executables. The name of the variable
+ • ESS[R]: On Windows, there is now a new customizable variable
+ (currently called ‘ess-directory-containing-R’) to tell ESS where
+ to look for the ‘Rterm.exe’ executables. The name of the variable
and the values it can take are both in beta and subject to change.
Prior to this variable, ESS searched only in the default
installation directory. Setting this variable now tells ESS how to
- find 'Rterm.exe' executables when they are installed somewhere
+ find ‘Rterm.exe’ executables when they are installed somewhere
else.
- * ESS[julia]: _new_ mode for editing julia code ('*.jl'). Start with
- 'M-x julia'.
+ • ESS[julia]: _new_ mode for editing julia code (‘*.jl’). Start with
+ ‘M-x julia’.
Full interaction interface, imenu and basic error referencing are
available.
- * ESS[R] noweb: 'noweb-mode' and 'noweb-font-lock-mode' have been
- renamed to 'ess-noweb-mode' and 'ess-noweb-font-lock-mode' to avoid
- conflicts with the "real" 'noweb-mode'.
+ • ESS[R] noweb: ‘noweb-mode’ and ‘noweb-font-lock-mode’ have been
+ renamed to ‘ess-noweb-mode’ and ‘ess-noweb-font-lock-mode’ to avoid
+ conflicts with the "real" ‘noweb-mode’.
- * ESS[R] noweb: The long standing font-lock bug has been solved in
- 'ess-noweb' interface.
+ • ESS[R] noweb: The long standing font-lock bug has been solved in
+ ‘ess-noweb’ interface.
- * ESS: Basic evaluation keys are now bound to 'ess-eval-region-*-'
+ • ESS: Basic evaluation keys are now bound to ‘ess-eval-region-*-’
functions:
- - 'C-M-x' is bound to 'ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph'
- - 'C-c C-c' is bound to
- 'ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph-and-step'
- - 'C-RET' is bound to 'ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step'
+ − ‘C-M-x’ is bound to ‘ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph’
+ − ‘C-c C-c’ is bound to
+ ‘ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph-and-step’
+ − ‘C-RET’ is bound to ‘ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step’
Each of these functions first evaluates the region whenever the
region is active.
- * ESS: 'C-M-a'/'C-M-e' now step to beginning/end of paragraph if no
+ • ESS: ‘C-M-a’/‘C-M-e’ now step to beginning/end of paragraph if no
function has been detected.
- * ESS: 'ess-eval-*-and-step' family of functions are now smarter, and
- don't step to end of buffer or end of chunk code ('@') when at the
+ • ESS: ‘ess-eval-*-and-step’ family of functions are now smarter, and
+ don't step to end of buffer or end of chunk code (‘@’) when at the
end of the code.
- * ESS: 'ess-handy-commands' function is bound to 'C-c h'
+ • ESS: ‘ess-handy-commands’ function is bound to ‘C-c h’
- * ESS: ESS is now _blinking_ the evaluated region. Set
- 'ess-blink-region' to nil to deactivate; 'ess-blink-delay' gives
+ • ESS: ESS is now _blinking_ the evaluated region. Set
+ ‘ess-blink-region’ to nil to deactivate; ‘ess-blink-delay’ gives
the duration of the blink. Evaluated region is "blinked" in
- 'highlight' face.
+ ‘highlight’ face.
- * ESS[R-help] New key 'a' for "apropos()" in help buffers. Also
- available through 'C-c h'.
+ • ESS[R-help] New key ‘a’ for "apropos()" in help buffers. Also
+ available through ‘C-c h’.
- * ESS[R-help] All R commands of type foo?bar and foo??bar are
+ • ESS[R-help] All R commands of type foo?bar and foo??bar are
recognized and redirected into appropriate *ESS-help* buffers.
- * ESS[R]: New customization interface for _font-lock_.
+ • ESS[R]: New customization interface for _font-lock_.
ESS font-lock operates with predefined keywords. Default keywords
- are listed in 'ess-R-font-lock-keywords' and
- 'inferior-R-font-lock-keywords', which see. The user can easily
+ are listed in ‘ess-R-font-lock-keywords’ and
+ ‘inferior-R-font-lock-keywords’, which see. The user can easily
customize those by adding new keywords. These variables can also
- be interactively accessed and saved through 'ESS/Font-lock'
+ be interactively accessed and saved through ‘ESS/Font-lock’
submenu.
Several new fontification keywords have been added. Most notably
the keywords for highlighting of function calls, numbers and
operators.
- * ESS[R]: auto-complete is now activated by default whenever
- auto-complete package is detected. Set 'ess-use-auto-complete' to
+ • ESS[R]: auto-complete is now activated by default whenever
+ auto-complete package is detected. Set ‘ess-use-auto-complete’ to
nil to deactivate.
- * ESS[R]: R AC sources are no longer auto-starting at 0 characters
- but at the default 'ac-auto-start' characters.
- * ESS no longer redefines default ac-sources, but only appends
- 'ac-source-filename' to it.
- * ESS: 'ac-source-R' now concatenates " = " to function arguments.
+ • ESS[R]: R AC sources are no longer auto-starting at 0 characters
+ but at the default ‘ac-auto-start’ characters.
+ • ESS no longer redefines default ac-sources, but only appends
+ ‘ac-source-filename’ to it.
+ • ESS: ‘ac-source-R’ now concatenates " = " to function arguments.
- * ESS: Menus for ESS and iESS have been reorganized and enriched with
+ • ESS: Menus for ESS and iESS have been reorganized and enriched with
_Tracebug_ and _Developer_ submenus.
- * ESS[R]: 'ess-developer' and 'ess-tracebug' commands are available
- by default in 'ess-dev-map' which is bound to 'C-c d' in ESS and
+ • ESS[R]: ‘ess-developer’ and ‘ess-tracebug’ commands are available
+ by default in ‘ess-dev-map’ which is bound to ‘C-c d’ in ESS and
iESS maps.
- * ESS[R]: 'eldoc' truncates long lines whenever
- 'eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p' is non-nil (the default). Set
+ • ESS[R]: ‘eldoc’ truncates long lines whenever
+ ‘eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p’ is non-nil (the default). Set
this variable to t if you insist on multiline eldoc. See also
- 'ess-eldoc-abbreviation-style'.
+ ‘ess-eldoc-abbreviation-style’.
- * ESS[R]: completion code pre-caches arguments of heavy generics such
- as 'plot' and 'print' to eliminated the undesirable delay on first
+ • ESS[R]: completion code pre-caches arguments of heavy generics such
+ as ‘plot’ and ‘print’ to eliminated the undesirable delay on first
request.
- * iESS: Prompts in inferior buffers are now highlighted uniformly
- with 'comint-highlight-prompt' face.
+ • iESS: Prompts in inferior buffers are now highlighted uniformly
+ with ‘comint-highlight-prompt’ face.
- * ESS[R]: R process no longer wait for the completion of input in
- inferior buffer. Thus, long running commands like 'Sys.sleep(5)'
+ • ESS[R]: R process no longer wait for the completion of input in
+ inferior buffer. Thus, long running commands like ‘Sys.sleep(5)’
no longer stall emacs.
- * ESS: [R, S, Stata, Julia] have specialized 'ess-X-post-run-hook's,
+ • ESS: [R, S, Stata, Julia] have specialized ‘ess-X-post-run-hook’s,
which are run at the end of subprocess initialization.
- * ESS[Stata]: All interactive evaluation commands work as expected.
+ • ESS[Stata]: All interactive evaluation commands work as expected.
On-line comments are removed before the evaluation and multiline
- comments are skipped on 'C-c C-c' and other interactive commands.
+ comments are skipped on ‘C-c C-c’ and other interactive commands.
- * ESS no longer auto-connects to a subprocess with a different
+ • ESS no longer auto-connects to a subprocess with a different
dialect than the current buffer's one.
- * ESS: 'ess-arg-function-offset-new-line' is now a list for all the
+ • ESS: ‘ess-arg-function-offset-new-line’ is now a list for all the
ESS indentation styles, which results in the following indentation
after an open "(":
@@ -518,49 +518,49 @@ Changes and New Features in 15.09:
arg1,
arg2)
- * ESS[SAS]: Improved MS RTF support for GNU Emacs; try
- 'ess-sas-rtf-portrait' and 'ess-sas-rtf-landscape'.
+ • ESS[SAS]: Improved MS RTF support for GNU Emacs; try
+ ‘ess-sas-rtf-portrait’ and ‘ess-sas-rtf-landscape’.
Changes/Bug Fixes in 12.04-3:
- * ESS: basic support for package.el compatibility
- * ESS[R]: correct indentation of & and | continuation lines
- * 'M-x ess-version' shows the svn revision even after 'make install'
- * ESS[SAS]: improved XEmacs support
- * iESS[R]: better finding of previous prompt
- * ESS[Stata]: adjusted prompt for mata mode
- * ESS[R]: resolved name clashes with cl.el
- * ESS[R]: removed dependence on obsolete package assoc
- * New 'make' target 'lisp', to build the Lisp-only part, i.e., not
+ • ESS: basic support for package.el compatibility
+ • ESS[R]: correct indentation of & and | continuation lines
+ • ‘M-x ess-version’ shows the svn revision even after ‘make install’
+ • ESS[SAS]: improved XEmacs support
+ • iESS[R]: better finding of previous prompt
+ • ESS[Stata]: adjusted prompt for mata mode
+ • ESS[R]: resolved name clashes with cl.el
+ • ESS[R]: removed dependence on obsolete package assoc
+ • New ‘make’ target ‘lisp’, to build the Lisp-only part, i.e., not
building the docs.
Changes/New Features in 12.04-1:
- * iESS[Stata]: New interactive help invocation.
- * iESS[Stata]: New custom variable 'inferior-STA-start-file'.
- * iESS[Stata]: 'inferior-STA-program-name' is now "stata" and can be
+ • iESS[Stata]: New interactive help invocation.
+ • iESS[Stata]: New custom variable ‘inferior-STA-start-file’.
+ • iESS[Stata]: ‘inferior-STA-program-name’ is now "stata" and can be
customized.
- * ESS[Stata] New sections in stata help files Syntax('s-S'),
- Remarks('r'), Title('t').
+ • ESS[Stata] New sections in stata help files Syntax(‘s-S’),
+ Remarks(‘r’), Title(‘t’).
Bug Fixes in 12.04-1:
- * ESS[R]: Better 'ess-tracebug' error handling.
- * ESS[R]: Corrected 'ess-eldoc' help string filtering and improved
+ • ESS[R]: Better ‘ess-tracebug’ error handling.
+ • ESS[R]: Corrected ‘ess-eldoc’ help string filtering and improved
argument caching.
- * ESS[R]: Indentation of non-block if/else/for/while lines fixed.
- * 'M-x ess-version' should work better.
- * ESS: Filename completion now again works inside strings.
- * iESS[Stata]: Fixed prompt detection issue.
- * ESS[Rd]: R is autostarted also from here, when needed.
+ • ESS[R]: Indentation of non-block if/else/for/while lines fixed.
+ • ‘M-x ess-version’ should work better.
+ • ESS: Filename completion now again works inside strings.
+ • iESS[Stata]: Fixed prompt detection issue.
+ • ESS[Rd]: R is autostarted also from here, when needed.
Changes/New Features in 12.04:
- * ESS: Reverting new behavior of 12.03, 'TAB' in 'ess-mode' no longer
- completes by default. If you want smart 'TAB' completion in R and
+ • ESS: Reverting new behavior of 12.03, ‘TAB’ in ‘ess-mode’ no longer
+ completes by default. If you want smart ‘TAB’ completion in R and
S scripts, similarly to iESS behavior, set the variable
- 'ess-tab-complete-in-script' to 't'. Also see
- 'ess-first-tab-never-complete' for how to customize where first
- 'TAB' is allowed to complete.
- * ESS: completion is consistently bound to 'M-TAB' (aka 'M-C-i') in
+ ‘ess-tab-complete-in-script’ to ‘t’. Also see
+ ‘ess-first-tab-never-complete’ for how to customize where first
+ ‘TAB’ is allowed to complete.
+ • ESS: completion is consistently bound to ‘M-TAB’ (aka ‘M-C-i’) in
both Emacs23 and Emacs24.
- * ESS: The variable 'ess-arg-function-offset-new-line' introduced in
+ • ESS: The variable ‘ess-arg-function-offset-new-line’ introduced in
ESS(12.03) now accepts a list with the first element a number to
indicate that the offset should be computed from the indent of the
previous line. For example setting it to '(2) results in:
@@ -570,8 +570,8 @@ Changes and New Features in 15.09:
arg2)
Changes/New Features in 12.03:
- * ESS indentation: new offset variable
- 'ess-arg-function-offset-new-line' controlling for the indentation
+ • ESS indentation: new offset variable
+ ‘ess-arg-function-offset-new-line’ controlling for the indentation
of lines immediately following open '('. This is useful to shift
backwards function arguments after a long function call expression:
@@ -592,217 +592,217 @@ Changes and New Features in 15.09:
This variable should be set as part of indentation style lists, or
in ess-mode hook.
- * ESS[R]: 'C-c .' sets (indentation) style.
- * ESS: In ESS buffers 'yank'('C-y') command accepts double argument
- 'C-u C-u' to paste commands only. It deletes any lines not
+ • ESS[R]: ‘C-c .’ sets (indentation) style.
+ • ESS: In ESS buffers ‘yank’(‘C-y’) command accepts double argument
+ ‘C-u C-u’ to paste commands only. It deletes any lines not
beginning with a prompt, and then removes the prompt from those
lines that remain. Useful to paste code from emails,
documentation, inferior ESS buffers or transcript files.
- * Documentation: ESS user manual has been rearranged and completed
+ • Documentation: ESS user manual has been rearranged and completed
with several new chapters and sections to reflect newly added
features ("Completion", "Developing with ESS", "ESS tracebug", "ESS
developer", "ESS ElDoc", "IDO Completion" and "Evaluating Code")
- * RefCard: Reference card was updated to include new features.
- * Eldoc: Eldoc was rewritten and is activated by default. See
- 'ess-use-eldoc', 'ess-eldoc-show-on-symbol',
- 'ess-eldoc-abbreviation-style' variables for how to change the
- default behavior. _Note:_ 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe' prohibits
- eldoc display, on '(' insertion.
- * ESS[R]: Eldoc shows arguments of a generic function whenever found.
- * ESS: 'TAB' in 'ess-mode' now indents and completes, if there is
- nothing to indent. Set 'ess-first-tab-never-completes-p' to 't' to
- make 'TAB' never complete on first invocation. Completion
- mechanism is similar to the completion in the 'inferior-ess-mode' -
+ • RefCard: Reference card was updated to include new features.
+ • Eldoc: Eldoc was rewritten and is activated by default. See
+ ‘ess-use-eldoc’, ‘ess-eldoc-show-on-symbol’,
+ ‘ess-eldoc-abbreviation-style’ variables for how to change the
+ default behavior. _Note:_ ‘skeleton-pair-insert-maybe’ prohibits
+ eldoc display, on ‘(’ insertion.
+ • ESS[R]: Eldoc shows arguments of a generic function whenever found.
+ • ESS: ‘TAB’ in ‘ess-mode’ now indents and completes, if there is
+ nothing to indent. Set ‘ess-first-tab-never-completes-p’ to ‘t’ to
+ make ‘TAB’ never complete on first invocation. Completion
+ mechanism is similar to the completion in the ‘inferior-ess-mode’ -
a filename expansion is tried, if not found ESS completes the
symbol by querying the process.
- * ESS for emacs version 24 or higher: ESS is fully compatible with
+ • ESS for emacs version 24 or higher: ESS is fully compatible with
the emacs 24 completion scheme, i.e. all the completion is done by
- 'completion-at-point'. Also in accordance with emacs conventions,
- ESS doesn't bind 'M-TAB' for emacs 24 or higher. 'M-TAB' calls the
- default 'complete-symbol'.
+ ‘completion-at-point’. Also in accordance with emacs conventions,
+ ESS doesn't bind ‘M-TAB’ for emacs 24 or higher. ‘M-TAB’ calls the
+ default ‘complete-symbol’.
- * ESS[R]: Out of the box integration with 'Auto Completion' mode
+ • ESS[R]: Out of the box integration with ‘Auto Completion’ mode
http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete
(http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete) . Three AC sources
- 'ac-source-R-args', 'ac-source-R-objects' and 'ac-source-R' are
+ ‘ac-source-R-args’, ‘ac-source-R-objects’ and ‘ac-source-R’ are
provided. The last one combines the previous two and makes them
- play nicely together. Set 'ess-use-auto-complete' to 't' to start
- using it. Refer to documentation string of 'ac-use-auto-complete'
+ play nicely together. Set ‘ess-use-auto-complete’ to ‘t’ to start
+ using it. Refer to documentation string of ‘ac-use-auto-complete’
for further information.
- * ESS[R]: New unified and fast argument completion system, comprised
- of 'ess-funname.start', 'ess-function-arguments',
- 'ess-get-object-at-point'. Eldoc and auto-completion integration
+ • ESS[R]: New unified and fast argument completion system, comprised
+ of ‘ess-funname.start’, ‘ess-function-arguments’,
+ ‘ess-get-object-at-point’. Eldoc and auto-completion integration
are using this system.
- * ESS: 'ess-switch-to-end-of-ESS'('C-c C-z'), and
- 'ess-switch-to-ESS'('C-c C-y'): Automatically start the process
+ • ESS: ‘ess-switch-to-end-of-ESS’(‘C-c C-z’), and
+ ‘ess-switch-to-ESS’(‘C-c C-y’): Automatically start the process
whenever needed.
- * ESS[R]: 'roxy' knows about previewing text version of the
- documentation. Bound to 'C-c C-e t'.
- * ESS[R]: Solved the "nil filename" bug in roxygen support.
- * ESS[R]: 'ess-tracebug' is now part of ESS:
+ • ESS[R]: ‘roxy’ knows about previewing text version of the
+ documentation. Bound to ‘C-c C-e t’.
+ • ESS[R]: Solved the "nil filename" bug in roxygen support.
+ • ESS[R]: ‘ess-tracebug’ is now part of ESS:
New Features:
- - Source injection: Tracebug now can inject source references on
+ − Source injection: Tracebug now can inject source references on
the fly during code evaluation, i.e. you don't have to source
your file, but just evaluate your code in normal fashion.
- Variable 'ess-tracebug-inject-source-p' controls this behavior
- - if t, always inject source reference, if ''function', inject
- only for functions (this is the default), if 'nil', never
+ Variable ‘ess-tracebug-inject-source-p’ controls this behavior
+ - if t, always inject source reference, if ‘'function’, inject
+ only for functions (this is the default), if ‘nil’, never
inject.
- During the source injection the value of 'ess-eval-visibly' is
+ During the source injection the value of ‘ess-eval-visibly’ is
ignored.
- - Org-mode support: Visual debugger is now aware of the
- temporary org source editing buffer ('C-c '') and jumps
+ − Org-mode support: Visual debugger is now aware of the
+ temporary org source editing buffer (‘C-c '’) and jumps
through this buffers if still alive, or in original org buffer
otherwise.
- - New keys in watch mode: '?' and 'd'
- - Two new hooks: ess-tracebug-enter-hook and
+ − New keys in watch mode: ‘?’ and ‘d’
+ − Two new hooks: ess-tracebug-enter-hook and
ess-tracebug-exit-hook
- * ESS[R]: New package 'ess-developer' to evaluate 'R' code directly
+ • ESS[R]: New package ‘ess-developer’ to evaluate ‘R’ code directly
in the package environment and namespace. It can be toggled on and
- off with 'C-c d t'. When 'ess-developer' is on all ESS evaluation
+ off with ‘C-c d t’. When ‘ess-developer’ is on all ESS evaluation
commands are redefined to evaluate code in appropriate
environments. Add package names to the list of your development
- packages with 'C-d a', and remove with 'C-d r'. Source the current
- file with 'C-d s'.Evaluation function which depend on
- '`ess-eval-region'' ask for the package to source the code into,
- 'ess-eval-function' and alternatives search for the function name
+ packages with ‘C-d a’, and remove with ‘C-d r’. Source the current
+ file with ‘C-d s’.Evaluation function which depend on
+ ‘`ess-eval-region'’ ask for the package to source the code into,
+ ‘ess-eval-function’ and alternatives search for the function name
in the development packages' environment and namespace and insert
the definition accordingly. See the documentation section
"Developing with ESS/ESS developer" for more details.
- * ESS[R] help system:
+ • ESS[R] help system:
New Features:
- - 'q' quits window instead of calling
- 'ess-switch-to-end-of-ESS'. This is consistent with emacs
+ − ‘q’ quits window instead of calling
+ ‘ess-switch-to-end-of-ESS’. This is consistent with emacs
behavior help and other special buffers (_breaking change_).
- - 'k' kills window without asking for the name (pointed by Sam
+ − ‘k’ kills window without asking for the name (pointed by Sam
Steingold)
- - Help map inherits from 'special-mode-map' as suggested by Sam
+ − Help map inherits from ‘special-mode-map’ as suggested by Sam
Steingold.
- - Package index: new function 'ess-display-index' bound to 'i'
+ − Package index: new function ‘ess-display-index’ bound to ‘i’
in help mode map.
- - Package vignettes: new function 'ess-display-vignettes' bound
- to 'v' in help mode map.
- - Display help in HTML browser: new function
- 'ess-display-help-in-browser' bound to 'w' in help mode map.
- It depends on 'R''s 'browser' option.
- - New custom variable 'ess-help-pop-to-buffer': if non-nil ESS
- help buffers are given focus on display. The default is 't'
+ − Package vignettes: new function ‘ess-display-vignettes’ bound
+ to ‘v’ in help mode map.
+ − Display help in HTML browser: new function
+ ‘ess-display-help-in-browser’ bound to ‘w’ in help mode map.
+ It depends on ‘R’'s ‘browser’ option.
+ − New custom variable ‘ess-help-pop-to-buffer’: if non-nil ESS
+ help buffers are given focus on display. The default is ‘t’
(_breaking change_).
- - New menu entries for the above functions.
- - Bogus help buffers are no longer generated by default, i.e.
+ − New menu entries for the above functions.
+ − Bogus help buffers are no longer generated by default, i.e.
buffers of the form "No documentation for 'foo' in specified
packages and libraries: you could try '??foo' ".
- 'ess-help-kill-bogus-buffers' now defaults to 't'. Beware,
+ ‘ess-help-kill-bogus-buffers’ now defaults to ‘t’. Beware,
there may be instances where the default is unsatisfactory
such as debugging and/or during R development. Thanks to Ross
Boylan for making the suggestion, Sam Steingold for reminding
us of this variable and Martin Maechler for the warning.
- * ESS now uses 'IDO' completing read functionality for all the
+ • ESS now uses ‘IDO’ completing read functionality for all the
interactive requests. It uses ido completion mechanism whenever
available, and falls back on classical completing-read otherwise.
- You can set 'ess-use-ido' to nil if you don't want the IDO
- completion. See the documentation string of 'ess-use-ido' for more
- information about 'IDO' and ESS configuration.
+ You can set ‘ess-use-ido’ to nil if you don't want the IDO
+ completion. See the documentation string of ‘ess-use-ido’ for more
+ information about ‘IDO’ and ESS configuration.
- * ESS[S]: "','" is bound to ess-smart-comma: If comma is invoked at
+ • ESS[S]: "‘,’" is bound to ess-smart-comma: If comma is invoked at
the process marker of an ESS inferior buffer, request and execute a
- command from '`ess-handy-commands'' list. If
- 'ess-R-smart-operators' is t '`ess-smart-comma' also inserts " "
+ command from ‘`ess-handy-commands'’ list. If
+ ‘ess-R-smart-operators’ is t ‘`ess-smart-comma’ also inserts " "
after comma.
- * ESS[S], notably 'R': Variable '`ess-handy-commands'' stores an
- alist of useful commands which are called by 'ess-smart-comma' in
+ • ESS[S], notably ‘R’: Variable ‘`ess-handy-commands'’ stores an
+ alist of useful commands which are called by ‘ess-smart-comma’ in
the inferior buffer.
Currently containing:
change-directory
- 'ess-change-directory'
+ ‘ess-change-directory’
help-index
- 'ess-display-index'
+ ‘ess-display-index’
help-object
- 'ess-display-help-on-object'
+ ‘ess-display-help-on-object’
vignettes
- 'ess-display-vignettes'
+ ‘ess-display-vignettes’
objects[ls]
- 'ess-execute-objects'
+ ‘ess-execute-objects’
search
- 'ess-execute-search'
+ ‘ess-execute-search’
set-width
- 'ess-execute-screen-options'
+ ‘ess-execute-screen-options’
install.packages
- 'ess-install.packages'
+ ‘ess-install.packages’
library
- 'ess-library'
+ ‘ess-library’
setRepos
- 'ess-setRepositories'
+ ‘ess-setRepositories’
sos
- 'ess-sos'
+ ‘ess-sos’
- Handy commands: 'ess-library', 'ess-install.packages', etc - ask
+ Handy commands: ‘ess-library’, ‘ess-install.packages’, etc - ask
for item with completion and execute the correspond command.
- 'ess-sos' is a interface to 'findFn' function in package 'sos'. If
- package 'sos' is not found, ask user for interactive install.
+ ‘ess-sos’ is a interface to ‘findFn’ function in package ‘sos’. If
+ package ‘sos’ is not found, ask user for interactive install.
- * ESS: New dynamic mode line indicator: Process status is
+ • ESS: New dynamic mode line indicator: Process status is
automatically reflected in all mode-lines of associated with the
process buffers. Particularly useful for displaying debug status
- of 'ess-tracebug' and developer status of 'ess-developer' in all
+ of ‘ess-tracebug’ and developer status of ‘ess-developer’ in all
associated buffers.
- * ESS: New 'ess-completing-read' mechanism: ESS uses 'ido'
- completions whenever possible. Variable 'ess-use-ido' controls
+ • ESS: New ‘ess-completing-read’ mechanism: ESS uses ‘ido’
+ completions whenever possible. Variable ‘ess-use-ido’ controls
whether to use ido completion or not. Active by default.
- * ESS now supports comint fields for output and input detection.
+ • ESS now supports comint fields for output and input detection.
This feature is not used by default, but might be useful in the
future.
- * ESS[S]: New custom variable 'inferior-ess-S-prompt' to customize
+ • ESS[S]: New custom variable ‘inferior-ess-S-prompt’ to customize
prompt detection regular expression in the inferior ESS buffers.
You can customize this variable to enhance comint navigation
- ('comint-previous-prompt' and 'comint-next-prompt') the inferior
+ (‘comint-previous-prompt’ and ‘comint-next-prompt’) the inferior
buffers.
- * ESS[R]: Internal 'R' completion retrieval
- ('ess-R-complete-object-name') was rewritten and is faster now.
+ • ESS[R]: Internal ‘R’ completion retrieval
+ (‘ess-R-complete-object-name’) was rewritten and is faster now.
- * ESS is using process plist to store process specific variables, as
+ • ESS is using process plist to store process specific variables, as
opposed to buffer local variables as it was using before. The use
of buffer local variables to store process variables is
discouraged.
- * ESS: new functions to manipulate process plists: 'ess-process-get'
- and 'ess-process-set'.
+ • ESS: new functions to manipulate process plists: ‘ess-process-get’
+ and ‘ess-process-set’.
- * ESS: Internal process waiting mechanism was completely rewritten.
+ • ESS: Internal process waiting mechanism was completely rewritten.
ESS no more relies on prompt regular expressions for the prompt
detection. The only requirement on the primary process prompt is
- to end in '> '. This could be overwritten by setting
- 'inferior-ess-primary-prompt'.
+ to end in ‘> ’. This could be overwritten by setting
+ ‘inferior-ess-primary-prompt’.
- * ESS[S], notably 'R': Saved command history: ESS-HISTORY-FILE now
- accepts 't' (default), 'nil', or a file name. By setting it to
- 'nil' no command line history is saved anymore.
+ • ESS[S], notably ‘R’: Saved command history: ESS-HISTORY-FILE now
+ accepts ‘t’ (default), ‘nil’, or a file name. By setting it to
+ ‘nil’ no command line history is saved anymore.
ESS-HISTORY-DIRECTORY now allows to have the history all saved in
one "central" file.
- * ESS[R]: more Roxygen improvements.
- * ESS[R]: 'C-c .' to set (indentation) style.
+ • ESS[R]: more Roxygen improvements.
+ • ESS[R]: ‘C-c .’ to set (indentation) style.
- * ESS[R]: Functions with non-standard names (for example
+ • ESS[R]: Functions with non-standard names (for example
'aaa-bbb:cc') are properly handled by font-lock and evaluation
routines.
- * ESS[R]:Several regexp bugs (described in etc/R-ESS-bugs.el) were
- fixed in 'ess-get-words-from-vector' and 'ess-command'.
+ • ESS[R]:Several regexp bugs (described in etc/R-ESS-bugs.el) were
+ fixed in ‘ess-get-words-from-vector’ and ‘ess-command’.
Changes/New Features in 5.14:
- * ESS[BUGS/JAGS]: Batch BUGS is back! For recent OpenBUGS versions,
+ • ESS[BUGS/JAGS]: Batch BUGS is back! For recent OpenBUGS versions,
3.0.8+, a batch BUGS script is once again available, but for Linux
only. Therefore, since it seems that BUGS and JAGS must co-exist
(rather than a transition from BUGS to JAGS), .bug files are now in
@@ -811,494 +811,494 @@ Changes and New Features in 15.09:
which was difficult to maintain. Although, ESS[BUGS] appears to
work, there still may be some features missing as well as bugs.
- * ESS[R]: New customizable variable 'ess-swv-plug-into-AUCTeX-p'
+ • ESS[R]: New customizable variable ‘ess-swv-plug-into-AUCTeX-p’
Commands to Sweave current file and LaTeX the result are now
- available to AUCTeX users, if this variable is set to 't'.
+ available to AUCTeX users, if this variable is set to ‘t’.
- * ESS[S]: 'C-c C-c' ('ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step') is
+ • ESS[S]: ‘C-c C-c’ (‘ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step’) is
now skipping over comments as the other paragraph functions do. It
- (and similar functions) should no longer wrongly find 'function()'
+ (and similar functions) should no longer wrongly find ‘function()’
beginnings inside comments or strings.
- * ESS[SAS]: improved by better support for GNU Emacs
+ • ESS[SAS]: improved by better support for GNU Emacs
Changes/New Features in 5.13:
- * ESS[R]: On Windows, for R 2.12.0 and later, the Rterm executables
+ • ESS[R]: On Windows, for R 2.12.0 and later, the Rterm executables
(in subdirectories i386 / x64) now are found as well as for earlier
R versions.
- * ESS[S+]: on Windows, both 32- and 64-bit versions of S+ ("S-PLUS")
+ • ESS[S+]: on Windows, both 32- and 64-bit versions of S+ ("S-PLUS")
are found now and made available on the menu.
- * ESS[R]: When prompting for a starting directory, the R version is
+ • ESS[R]: When prompting for a starting directory, the R version is
(always?) correct now.
- * ESS[R]: on non-Windows platforms, the 'use-dialog-box' variable is
- no longer temporarily changed (to 'nil' for R-x.y.z version
- functions and to 't' for 'R' itself), but rather the user
+ • ESS[R]: on non-Windows platforms, the ‘use-dialog-box’ variable is
+ no longer temporarily changed (to ‘nil’ for R-x.y.z version
+ functions and to ‘t’ for ‘R’ itself), but rather the user
customization is obeyed.
- * ESS[R]: more Roxygen improvements.
- * 'Rd-preview-help' now generates preview buffers with navigation
+ • ESS[R]: more Roxygen improvements.
+ • 'Rd-preview-help' now generates preview buffers with navigation
facilities the same as regular help buffers.
- * ESS: New functions and keys C-c [up] / [down] for evaluating the
+ • ESS: New functions and keys C-c [up] / [down] for evaluating the
buffer "from beginning till here".
Changes/New Features in 5.12:
- * ESS[SAS] Font-locking: update of PROCs keywords (up to SAS 9.22);
+ • ESS[SAS] Font-locking: update of PROCs keywords (up to SAS 9.22);
error/warnings.
- * ESS[R]: Roxygen improvements: S4 classes; also optionally keep
+ • ESS[R]: Roxygen improvements: S4 classes; also optionally keep
spaces when filling arguments
- * ESS[Rd]: support new keywords: section-name \subsection plus a
+ • ESS[Rd]: support new keywords: section-name \subsection plus a
dozen "new" keywords; should match R 2.12.x now.
- * 'ess-display-help-on-object' ('C-c C-v') now _caches_ the list of
+ • ‘ess-display-help-on-object’ (‘C-c C-v’) now _caches_ the list of
topics, thus speeding up the improvement feature introduced in 5.9.
Changes/New Features in 5.11:
- * Filename completion within buffers now adds only trailing
+ • Filename completion within buffers now adds only trailing
characters to complete the filename, rather than expanding to an
absolute file path. This filename completion is bound to the TAB
key.
- * 'M-n P' in Sweave buffers now prompts for the command to run
- instead of using 'pdflatex' unconditionally, offering completion
- from customizable collection 'ess-swv-pdflatex-commands', the first
- of which is taken as default and that defaults to 'texi2pdf'.
- * 'M-RET' is now also bound in S language (R and S+) buffers to
- 'ess-use-this-dir'. It sends 'setwd(..)' to the S process to set
+ • ‘M-n P’ in Sweave buffers now prompts for the command to run
+ instead of using ‘pdflatex’ unconditionally, offering completion
+ from customizable collection ‘ess-swv-pdflatex-commands’, the first
+ of which is taken as default and that defaults to ‘texi2pdf’.
+ • ‘M-RET’ is now also bound in S language (R and S+) buffers to
+ ‘ess-use-this-dir’. It sends ‘setwd(..)’ to the S process to set
the working directory to the one of the source file.
Changes/New Features in 5.10:
- * 'M-RET' in *S* buffers is now bound to 'ess-dirs'. This function
+ • ‘M-RET’ in *S* buffers is now bound to ‘ess-dirs’. This function
will set Emacs's current directory to be the same as the *S*
- process. This is useful if you use 'setwd()' within a *S* process.
+ process. This is useful if you use ‘setwd()’ within a *S* process.
Changes/New Features in 5.9:
- * Toolbar: The toolbar now has an icon for starting Splus.
- * Indentation: New documentation and code has been added to make it
+ • Toolbar: The toolbar now has an icon for starting Splus.
+ • Indentation: New documentation and code has been added to make it
easier to change how ESS indents code. In particular, see
- 'ess-default-style', 'ess-own-style-list' and the documentation
+ ‘ess-default-style’, ‘ess-own-style-list’ and the documentation
subsection "Changing indentation styles".
- * 'ess-display-help-on-object' ('C-c C-v') now offers completion
+ • ‘ess-display-help-on-object’ (‘C-c C-v’) now offers completion
candidates for help file aliases, in addition to object names.
- * Font locking: is now turned on even without 'window-system' is
- 'nil', whenever ESS-FONT-LOCK-MODE is non-nil, i.e., by default.
- * ESS script editing: ess-eval-deactivate-mark default is now t, as
+ • Font locking: is now turned on even without ‘window-system’ is
+ ‘nil’, whenever ESS-FONT-LOCK-MODE is non-nil, i.e., by default.
+ • ESS script editing: ess-eval-deactivate-mark default is now t, as
suggested by Leo Alekseyev and subsequent "unanimous" ESS-help
discussion.
- * ESS[R]: Editing support for "#!" (Rscript / littler) editing,
+ • ESS[R]: Editing support for "#!" (Rscript / littler) editing,
thanks to Jeffrey Arnold.
- * ESS[R]: Now finds all R versions, both 64-bit and 32-bit, on some
+ • ESS[R]: Now finds all R versions, both 64-bit and 32-bit, on some
64-bit Windows machines. Please report back to ess-core success or
failure on your 64-bit Windows machine.
- * ESS Manual now more visually pleasing;
+ • ESS Manual now more visually pleasing;
<https://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html>
- * ESS[R]: Roxygen on XEmacs no longer font locks for now (as it
+ • ESS[R]: Roxygen on XEmacs no longer font locks for now (as it
required missing features and hence broke ESS startup, there).
- * ESS[R]: Roxygen has a sub-menu on the [ESS] menu.
- * ESS[R]: Function 'ess-rutils-htmldocs' in 'ess-rutils.el' offers an
- alternative to 'help.start()' for navigating R documentation, using
- the 'browse-url' Emacs function.
+ • ESS[R]: Roxygen has a sub-menu on the [ESS] menu.
+ • ESS[R]: Function ‘ess-rutils-htmldocs’ in ‘ess-rutils.el’ offers an
+ alternative to ‘help.start()’ for navigating R documentation, using
+ the ‘browse-url’ Emacs function.
Changes/New Features in 5.8:
- * ESS[R]: New 'ess-rutils.el' with utilities for listing, loading,
+ • ESS[R]: New ‘ess-rutils.el’ with utilities for listing, loading,
installing, and updating packages, as well as object manipulation
(listing, viewing, and deleting). It also provides an alternative
- to 'RSiteSearch()' that uses the 'browse-url' function, so results
+ to ‘RSiteSearch()’ that uses the ‘browse-url’ function, so results
can be viewed in an Emacs web browser.
- * ESS[R]: much more extensive Roxygen interface, via ess-roxy.el from
+ • ESS[R]: much more extensive Roxygen interface, via ess-roxy.el from
Henning Redestig. Ess-roxy supports filling of roxygen fields,
generation and updating roxygen templates, completion of roxygen
tags, basic navigation (marking and moving between entries),
folding using hs-minor-mode and preview of the Rd file.
- * Emacs Lisp files have got better names (partly, for now).
+ • Emacs Lisp files have got better names (partly, for now).
Changes/New Features in 5.7:
- * ESS[R]: loading a source file ('C-c C-l') now works in Windows,
+ • ESS[R]: loading a source file (‘C-c C-l’) now works in Windows,
similarly to other platforms; (further; it had accidentally been
broken in ESS 5.6 on all platforms)
Changes/New Features in 5.6:
- * ESS[R]: help() calls have to differ from old default, with newer
+ • ESS[R]: help() calls have to differ from old default, with newer
versions of R; currently via .help.ESS <- function(...) hack.
Changes/New Features in 5.4:
- * ESS[SAS]: The long overdue change from 'make-regexp' to
- 'regexp-opt' for font-locking is complete. The new 'regexp-opt' is
+ • ESS[SAS]: The long overdue change from ‘make-regexp’ to
+ ‘regexp-opt’ for font-locking is complete. The new ‘regexp-opt’ is
now the default since it is better than the old code in many ways
(and especially more maintainable). However, there are certainly
some special cases missed (bug reports and patches welcome!).
- Setting 'ess-sas-run-regexp-opt' to 'nil' will result in the old
+ Setting ‘ess-sas-run-regexp-opt’ to ‘nil’ will result in the old
code being used.
- * ESS[BUGS] and ESS[JAGS]: typing '=' now results in '<-'.
- * ESS[R] function arguments "show" '(ess-r-args-show)' now uses the
- new '(tooltip-show-at-point)' contributed by Erik Iverson.
- * Toolbar icons now also work in (beta) Emacs 23.
- * ESS[S]: New function 'ess-change-directory' for setting both emacs'
+ • ESS[BUGS] and ESS[JAGS]: typing ‘=’ now results in ‘<-’.
+ • ESS[R] function arguments "show" ‘(ess-r-args-show)’ now uses the
+ new ‘(tooltip-show-at-point)’ contributed by Erik Iverson.
+ • Toolbar icons now also work in (beta) Emacs 23.
+ • ESS[S]: New function ‘ess-change-directory’ for setting both emacs'
current directory and the directory of an *R* or *S* buffer.
- * ESS[S] when transient-mark-mode is true, the mark is now kept,
+ • ESS[S] when transient-mark-mode is true, the mark is now kept,
rather than deactivated, thanks to a patch from David Reitter.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.11:
- * ESS[SAS]: work around bug in Emacs 22.2 & 22.3 which fails to set
+ • ESS[SAS]: work around bug in Emacs 22.2 & 22.3 which fails to set
case-fold fontification automatically.
- * Rd mode: support new keyword 'Rdversion'
- * ESS[R]: now again works with Emacs 21.x
+ • Rd mode: support new keyword 'Rdversion'
+ • ESS[R]: now again works with Emacs 21.x
Changes/New Features in 5.3.10:
- * Fixed noweb-mode bug accidentally introduced into 5.3.9
- * In noweb-mode, e.g., Rnw-mode, electric "<" also inserts closing
+ • Fixed noweb-mode bug accidentally introduced into 5.3.9
+ • In noweb-mode, e.g., Rnw-mode, electric "<" also inserts closing
"@". Further, the code chunk boundaries are better kept
up-to-date, such that code[R] <-> text[LaTeX] minor mode switching
should happen more reliably.
- * In noweb-mode, fix a buglet in rare [Enter] or [Tab] behavior;
+ • In noweb-mode, fix a buglet in rare [Enter] or [Tab] behavior;
further, by default disable the former '[[' .. ']]'
code-protection-when-filling behavior which has been found to be
buggy.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.9:
- * ESS[SAS]: evince PDF viewer now supported as well; search order:
+ • ESS[SAS]: evince PDF viewer now supported as well; search order:
evince, Xpdf, Adobe/Acrobat Reader
- * ESS[R]: added support for Roxygen, potentially to be extended.
- * ESS[S] (and R): inferior ('*R*') and transcript modes no longer
- fontify language keywords (such as 'for', 'in', etc).
- * iESS[Stata]: Customize the 'ess-sta-delimiter-friendly' setting to
- 't' to convert embedded semi-colons to newlines for Stata
+ • ESS[R]: added support for Roxygen, potentially to be extended.
+ • ESS[S] (and R): inferior (‘*R*’) and transcript modes no longer
+ fontify language keywords (such as ‘for’, ‘in’, etc).
+ • iESS[Stata]: Customize the ‘ess-sta-delimiter-friendly’ setting to
+ ‘t’ to convert embedded semi-colons to newlines for Stata
processing.
- * Sweave fix for embedded blanks in PDF reader and PDF files
- * Several fixes for Major Mode Convention violations in 'ess-mode'
- and 'noweb-mode'.
- * ESS[JAGS]: 'M-x comment-region' now available!
- * ESS[S] The 'ess-swv-*' commands (and keybindings) are now in a
+ • Sweave fix for embedded blanks in PDF reader and PDF files
+ • Several fixes for Major Mode Convention violations in ‘ess-mode’
+ and ‘noweb-mode’.
+ • ESS[JAGS]: ‘M-x comment-region’ now available!
+ • ESS[S] The ‘ess-swv-*’ commands (and keybindings) are now in a
submenu of the "Noweb" menu, when editing Sweave files.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.8:
- * ESS[JAGS]: more separation from ESS[BUGS] (as much as is currently
- planned); now 'C-c C-c' on an empty '.jmd' creates a template as it
+ • ESS[JAGS]: more separation from ESS[BUGS] (as much as is currently
+ planned); now ‘C-c C-c’ on an empty ‘.jmd’ creates a template as it
should; symbolic links are created for CODA output so BOA is happy:
- from 'index.txt' to '.ind' and 'chain#.txt' to '#.out'
- * ESS[SAS]: buffer-local 'ess-sas-submit-command' and
- 'ess-sas-submit-command-options' now recognized by
- 'ess-sas-submit-region'
- * ESS[S]: When trying to evaluate code in an S language buffer and
+ from ‘index.txt’ to ‘.ind’ and ‘chain#.txt’ to ‘#.out’
+ • ESS[SAS]: buffer-local ‘ess-sas-submit-command’ and
+ ‘ess-sas-submit-command-options’ now recognized by
+ ‘ess-sas-submit-region’
+ • ESS[S]: When trying to evaluate code in an S language buffer and
there is no associated process, now start R automatically instead
of signalling an error. Also, restart R if there is an associated
process which is not running. However, do not start R just via the
- "electric" '(' ('ess-r-args-auto-show').
- * ESS[S]: For (one-line) functions withOUT '{ .. }' bodys, the end
+ "electric" ‘(’ (‘ess-r-args-auto-show’).
+ • ESS[S]: For (one-line) functions withOUT '{ .. }' bodys, the end
of function is now correctly found more often. This notably
- improves 'C-c C-c' ('ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step').
- * ESS[JAGS]: cleanup/re-organization of Elisp code; symbolic links
- for CODA output are now only created by the new JAGS 'system'
+ improves ‘C-c C-c’ (‘ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step’).
+ • ESS[JAGS]: cleanup/re-organization of Elisp code; symbolic links
+ for CODA output are now only created by the new JAGS ‘system’
command in version 1.0.3; specify whether this command is available
- via 'ess-jags-system'; if not present, then no links are created so
- that the '*shell*' buffer does not become unresponsive during the
+ via ‘ess-jags-system’; if not present, then no links are created so
+ that the ‘*shell*’ buffer does not become unresponsive during the
batch run
Changes/New Features in 5.3.7:
- * ESS: 'ess-default-style' now *is* customizable, i.e., changing its
- value in '~/.emacs' now does have the desired effect.
- * ESS: 'ess-font-lock-mode' is a new variable (default: t) which
+ • ESS: ‘ess-default-style’ now *is* customizable, i.e., changing its
+ value in ‘~/.emacs’ now does have the desired effect.
+ • ESS: ‘ess-font-lock-mode’ is a new variable (default: t) which
controls whether font-locking is enabled in ESS buffers.
- * ESS[R]: for XEmacs on Windows; another tweak to find R versions
- * ESS[SAS]: font-locking updated for ODS and SAS Bayesian Procedures;
+ • ESS[R]: for XEmacs on Windows; another tweak to find R versions
+ • ESS[SAS]: font-locking updated for ODS and SAS Bayesian Procedures;
a more consistent handling of SAS options by
- 'ess-sas-submit-command-options' which is buffer-local; portable
- snooze for MS Windows via customize-able 'ess-sleep-for' (floats
+ ‘ess-sas-submit-command-options’ which is buffer-local; portable
+ snooze for MS Windows via customize-able ‘ess-sleep-for’ (floats
welcome); Xpdf now supported as a PDF viewer
- * ESS[Rnw]: now also works with "emacs -nw" and Emacs 22.
- * ESS[JAGS]: now requires JAGS 1.0 (see the new ESS for JAGS help
+ • ESS[Rnw]: now also works with "emacs -nw" and Emacs 22.
+ • ESS[JAGS]: now requires JAGS 1.0 (see the new ESS for JAGS help
section for more information): both need work; suggestions welcome
- * ESS[R]: [TAB] completion now uses the R-internal completion
+ • ESS[R]: [TAB] completion now uses the R-internal completion
mechanism (for R >= 2.5.0).
- * ESS[R] ([S]): interpretation of "_" as assignment has been removed
- in 'ess-continued-statement-p' for R and S.
- * several internal code cleanups.
- * ESS[R]: An experimental version of a new command 'Rgui' on MS
- Windows to send lines directly from emacs to 'Rgui' is available in
- file 'lisp/essd-rgui.el'. Preliminary documentation is in file
- 'doc/rgui-doc.txt'.
+ • ESS[R] ([S]): interpretation of "_" as assignment has been removed
+ in ‘ess-continued-statement-p’ for R and S.
+ • several internal code cleanups.
+ • ESS[R]: An experimental version of a new command ‘Rgui’ on MS
+ Windows to send lines directly from emacs to ‘Rgui’ is available in
+ file ‘lisp/essd-rgui.el’. Preliminary documentation is in file
+ ‘doc/rgui-doc.txt’.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.6:
- * ESS: for XEmacs, using "gnuclient" (without a "-q") works for
+ • ESS: for XEmacs, using "gnuclient" (without a "-q") works for
things like fix() after M-x gnuserv-start has been done.
- * ESS[R]: M-x R-newest should now work in more situations on MS
+ • ESS[R]: M-x R-newest should now work in more situations on MS
Windows, e.g., when R has been installed in a non-default
"ProgramFiles" directory tree. In these cases, there's no need to
specify the name (and full path) of the R program anymore.
- * ESS[R]: For XEmacs, startup (with new tooltip code) works again.
+ • ESS[R]: For XEmacs, startup (with new tooltip code) works again.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.5:
- * ESS[R] a new defun is available, 'M-x R-newest', which will start
+ • ESS[R] a new defun is available, ‘M-x R-newest’, which will start
the newest version of R that it can find on your system.
- * ESS[R] add Sven Hartenstein's "R function arguments tips"
- functionality, via new file '../lisp/essd-r-args.el'. Note that
- this includes an "electric "("" behavior inside 'R-mode' which is
+ • ESS[R] add Sven Hartenstein's "R function arguments tips"
+ functionality, via new file ‘../lisp/essd-r-args.el’. Note that
+ this includes an "electric "("" behavior inside ‘R-mode’ which is
_active by default_ and can be customized via
- 'ess-r-args-electric-paren'; i.e., use '(setq
- ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)' to turn it off. Further,
- 'ess-r-args-show-as' allows to switch to the "tooltip" mode.
- * ESS: functions 'ess-get-pdf-viewer' and *-ps-viewer; built on new
- customizable variables 'ess-pdf-viewer-pref' and
- 'ess-ps-viewer-pref'; currently used in 'ess-swv-PDF' and '*-PS'.
- * ESS[R] Improved 'ess-swv-PDF' to run pdf viewer only if pdflatex
+ ‘ess-r-args-electric-paren’; i.e., use ‘(setq
+ ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)’ to turn it off. Further,
+ ‘ess-r-args-show-as’ allows to switch to the "tooltip" mode.
+ • ESS: functions ‘ess-get-pdf-viewer’ and *-ps-viewer; built on new
+ customizable variables ‘ess-pdf-viewer-pref’ and
+ ‘ess-ps-viewer-pref’; currently used in ‘ess-swv-PDF’ and ‘*-PS’.
+ • ESS[R] Improved ‘ess-swv-PDF’ to run pdf viewer only if pdflatex
was ok
- * ESS[R] Improved 'ess-swv-weave' to start R automatically if none is
+ • ESS[R] Improved ‘ess-swv-weave’ to start R automatically if none is
running.
- * ESS: Do no longer ask _which_ ESS process to use if there is only
+ • ESS: Do no longer ask _which_ ESS process to use if there is only
one.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.4:
- * ESS[R] now better work with options(error=recover); and the new
+ • ESS[R] now better work with options(error=recover); and the new
default of CHM help files on windows.
- * ESS[R] some more cleanup in the "sweave" functions
- * miscellaneous fixes
+ • ESS[R] some more cleanup in the "sweave" functions
+ • miscellaneous fixes
Changes/New Features in 5.3.3:
- * ESS[S] fix buglet (5.3.2 only) which left command prompt in
+ • ESS[S] fix buglet (5.3.2 only) which left command prompt in
"execute buffer" and hence help files.
- * new customizable variable 'ess-display-buffer-reuse-frames' set to
+ • new customizable variable ‘ess-display-buffer-reuse-frames’ set to
true (which changes default behavior) such that execution or help
*frames* are reused.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.2:
- * Classic BUGS now supported by '(require 'essd-bugs)' with ESS[BUGS]
- and JAGS by '(require 'essd-jags)' with ESS[JAGS]. But, only one
+ • Classic BUGS now supported by ‘(require 'essd-bugs)’ with ESS[BUGS]
+ and JAGS by ‘(require 'essd-jags)’ with ESS[JAGS]. But, only one
of them can be used at a time since they don't play nice together.
- Also, 'C-c C-c' is now bound to the function 'ess-bugs-next-action'
- ('F12' has been retired). And finally, note that 'essl-bug.el' is
- deprecated and the replacement is 'essl-bugs.el'.
- * ESS[R] Improved some of the "Sweave-make" functions (yet scarcely
- documented) in 'ess-swv.el'.
- * ESS[S] No longer mess with .Last.value (nor in other "languages").
+ Also, ‘C-c C-c’ is now bound to the function ‘ess-bugs-next-action’
+ (‘F12’ has been retired). And finally, note that ‘essl-bug.el’ is
+ deprecated and the replacement is ‘essl-bugs.el’.
+ • ESS[R] Improved some of the "Sweave-make" functions (yet scarcely
+ documented) in ‘ess-swv.el’.
+ • ESS[S] No longer mess with .Last.value (nor in other "languages").
Changes/New Features in 5.3.1:
- * See the docs for 2 ways to install ESS for XEmacs
- 1. by uncommenting the XEmacs part of Section 1 of 'Makeconf' and
- performing 'make install'
- 2. by unpacking either 'ess-5.3.1.tgz' or 'ess-5.3.1.zip' into
- 'PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages' on unix or
- 'PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages' on windows
- * ESS[R]: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs
- * ESS[S]: 'ess-toggle-S-assign-key' is slightly changed; in
- particular, the default 'ess-assign-key' is now 'C-x ='.
- * ESS[R]: 'M-x R-site-search' is a new (slightly experimental)
- utility similar to R's 'RSiteSearch(..)' but with the advantage of
- using Emacs' preferred browser, see 'browse-url-browser-function'
+ • See the docs for 2 ways to install ESS for XEmacs
+ 1. by uncommenting the XEmacs part of Section 1 of ‘Makeconf’ and
+ performing ‘make install’
+ 2. by unpacking either ‘ess-5.3.1.tgz’ or ‘ess-5.3.1.zip’ into
+ ‘PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages’ on unix or
+ ‘PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages’ on windows
+ • ESS[R]: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs
+ • ESS[S]: ‘ess-toggle-S-assign-key’ is slightly changed; in
+ particular, the default ‘ess-assign-key’ is now ‘C-x =’.
+ • ESS[R]: ‘M-x R-site-search’ is a new (slightly experimental)
+ utility similar to R's ‘RSiteSearch(..)’ but with the advantage of
+ using Emacs' preferred browser, see ‘browse-url-browser-function’
Changes/New Features in 5.3.0:
- * ESS[BUGS]: sanely re-format statistical output, '.bog', from
+ • ESS[BUGS]: sanely re-format statistical output, ‘.bog’, from
scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places with
- 'M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp'.
- * The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
+ ‘M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp’.
+ • The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
worked, but only for one language per session; they should now work
for multiple languages. (They were also broken on Windows
machines.)
- * ESS[S] long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading Lisp
+ • ESS[S] long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading Lisp
code on Windows. Particularly fixed behavior in help mode with
S-plus GUI.
- * New variable, 'ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name', which
+ • New variable, ‘ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name’, which
enables using the executable name instead of the dialect name for
R. Feature request.
- * ESS[S] 'ess-execute-screen-options' now also works correctly when
+ • ESS[S] ‘ess-execute-screen-options’ now also works correctly when
there is more than one window *side-by-side* in the same frame and
runs in the correct buffer also when there is more than one S
buffer.
- * iESS[S] new functions 'ess-eval-paragraph-and-step' and
- 'ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step' are bound to keys 'C-c
- C-p' and 'C-c C-c' respectively and to the menu in ESS-mode; also
+ • iESS[S] new functions ‘ess-eval-paragraph-and-step’ and
+ ‘ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step’ are bound to keys ‘C-c
+ C-p’ and ‘C-c C-c’ respectively and to the menu in ESS-mode; also
bound in the help mode (for evaluating examples).
- * ESS[S] new function 'ess-toggle-S-assign-key' allows to assign the
+ • ESS[S] new function ‘ess-toggle-S-assign-key’ allows to assign the
" <- " insertion to an arbitrary key.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.12:
- * ESS[SAS]: 'M-;' fixed, but the XEmacs function 'comment-dwim' may
- be broken, if so, use 'M-x comment-region' and 'M-x
- uncomment-region' instead; only valid PROCs are fontified which is
+ • ESS[SAS]: ‘M-;’ fixed, but the XEmacs function ‘comment-dwim’ may
+ be broken, if so, use ‘M-x comment-region’ and ‘M-x
+ uncomment-region’ instead; only valid PROCs are fontified which is
very helpful finding syntax errors (currently supported: BASE, ETS,
- FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the "feature" where 'F'-keys
+ FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the "feature" where ‘F’-keys
take you to an empty buffer when the requested destination is a
file that does not exist has been fixed, now the request results in
a no-op. Further, sas-mode now also works in simple terminals.
- * Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
- * ESS[R]: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and define
+ • Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
+ • ESS[R]: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and define
'baseenv' where needed.
- * New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
- 'lisp/ess-install.el'.
+ • New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
+ ‘lisp/ess-install.el’.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
- * ESS Info entry and 'dir' handled more effectively for GNU Emacs
+ • ESS Info entry and ‘dir’ handled more effectively for GNU Emacs
users
- * ESS[SAS]: temporary files created for batch submission of a region
- are now named based on the current file; see 'ess-sas-file-root'
- for details; all 'lag' and 'dif' functions now fontified correctly
- * iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not appear
+ • ESS[SAS]: temporary files created for batch submission of a region
+ are now named based on the current file; see ‘ess-sas-file-root’
+ for details; all ‘lag’ and ‘dif’ functions now fontified correctly
+ • iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not appear
to work at this time; please let us know if you have any ideas.
- * ESS[S]: Support for running other versions of Splus has been added
- for unix. Two new variables, 'ess-s-versions' and
- 'ess-s-versions-list', are used to tell ESS what other versions of
+ • ESS[S]: Support for running other versions of Splus has been added
+ for unix. Two new variables, ‘ess-s-versions’ and
+ ‘ess-s-versions-list’, are used to tell ESS what other versions of
Splus you would like to run.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.10:
- * ESS[R]: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
+ • ESS[R]: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
customization was not taking effect unless customizations were
loaded before ESS). Its value has been changed so that it will also
find R executables beginning "R-devel" and "R-patched". If you
- wish to change this variable, it must be set in your '.emacs'
+ wish to change this variable, it must be set in your ‘.emacs’
before ESS is loaded.
- * Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like operating
+ • Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like operating
systems will now be able to install ESS for all users in either a
GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package configuration by editing
- 'lisp/ess-site.el' and 'Makeconf' accordingly, then issuing 'make
- install'
- * ESS[S]: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
+ ‘lisp/ess-site.el’ and ‘Makeconf’ accordingly, then issuing ‘make
+ install’
+ • ESS[S]: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
XEmacs for R and S-plus.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.9:
- * ESS[R] for Windows: the \ directory character bug with respect to
+ • ESS[R] for Windows: the \ directory character bug with respect to
ess-load-file has been eradicated.
- * iESS[SAS]: 'C-c C-r' and 'C-c C-b' once again work as intended and
+ • iESS[SAS]: ‘C-c C-r’ and ‘C-c C-b’ once again work as intended and
documented.
- * ESS[S]: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more aggressive.
- * ESS[S]: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
- * ESS[R]: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such that
- 'M-C-a' ('ess-beginning-of-function') etc now work for many more
+ • ESS[S]: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more aggressive.
+ • ESS[S]: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
+ • ESS[R]: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such that
+ ‘M-C-a’ (‘ess-beginning-of-function’) etc now work for many more
cases, including S4 method definitions.
- * iESS[R]: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
- * ESS[R]: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
+ • iESS[R]: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
+ • ESS[R]: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
buffers containing with the string "no documentation"(e.g.
contour) were being treated as bogus.
- * ESS[R]: In R help buffers, if 'options("help.try.all.packages" =
- TRUE)' then '?rlm' will list which packages rlm is defined in.
+ • ESS[R]: In R help buffers, if ‘options("help.try.all.packages" =
+ TRUE)’ then ‘?rlm’ will list which packages rlm is defined in.
This help buffer is not bogus, but instead is now relabelled
"*help[R](rlm in packages)*".
- * ESS[STA]: add "//" as comment starting character to syntax-table.
+ • ESS[STA]: add "//" as comment starting character to syntax-table.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.8:
- * iESS: [Tab] completes *file* names "inside string" as in earlier
+ • iESS: [Tab] completes *file* names "inside string" as in earlier
(<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.7:
- * If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items, the new
+ • If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items, the new
toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
- * ESS[SAS]: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and your .log grows to
+ • ESS[SAS]: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and your .log grows to
more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just the first ess-sas-log-max
bytes are refreshed; this is helpful when your .sas program
generates lots of error messages and gets too big for emacs to
display
- * ESS[R/S]: 'M-;' in R/S editing modes will now indent with either
+ • ESS[R/S]: ‘M-;’ in R/S editing modes will now indent with either
one or two hashes depending on context.
- * ESS[R]: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb') are now
+ • ESS[R]: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb') are now
available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
- * Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
- * ESS[R]: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
+ • Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
+ • ESS[R]: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup
message for R-devel (unstable development version of R 2.1.0) when
using environment variables LANGUAGE=en@quot LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
- * ESS[SAS]: toggling of .log mode improved ('F10'); toggling of .lst
- mode now also available ('C-F10'); killing all buffers associated
- with .sas program no longer bound to 'C-F10' since its a bit
+ • ESS[SAS]: toggling of .log mode improved (‘F10’); toggling of .lst
+ mode now also available (‘C-F10’); killing all buffers associated
+ with .sas program no longer bound to ‘C-F10’ since its a bit
overzealous.
- * S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
- * ESS[S] (incl. R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped
+ • S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
+ • ESS[S] (incl. R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped
anymore.
- * ESS[S] (incl. R): font-lock now correctly differs between R and S,
+ • ESS[S] (incl. R): font-lock now correctly differs between R and S,
e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does terminate()
additionally.
- * Support for 'bell' aka 'beep' aka 'ding' aka 'alarm' in all
+ • Support for 'bell' aka 'beep' aka 'ding' aka 'alarm' in all
inferior modes: When \a is output "to the the console" at the
beginning of a line, the bell is rung.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
- * ESS[R]: 'C-c C-q' or 'Quit S' from the menu now should work (again
- and less klunkily) and do not append '-exited' to the buffer name.
- Further, the behavior of '(ess-cleanup)', called from ess-quit, now
+ • ESS[R]: ‘C-c C-q’ or ‘Quit S’ from the menu now should work (again
+ and less klunkily) and do not append ‘-exited’ to the buffer name.
+ Further, the behavior of ‘(ess-cleanup)’, called from ess-quit, now
depends on the new customizable variable
- 'ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p' which defaults to 'nil'. Consequently,
+ ‘ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p’ which defaults to ‘nil’. Consequently,
the question _"Delete all buffers associated with ..?"_ will not
be asked anymore by default.
- * ESS[SAS] - ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
- with the 'recode' application as well which is available on many
+ • ESS[SAS] - ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
+ with the ‘recode’ application as well which is available on many
platforms
- * ESS[S] (incl. R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now
+ • ESS[S] (incl. R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now
works!
Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
- * The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the emacs
+ • The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the emacs
TAGS facility for S functions. (The distribution also used to
- contain a directory 'etc/other/Tags' where a ~1990 version of
- 'etags.c' was distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has
+ contain a directory ‘etc/other/Tags’ where a ~1990 version of
+ ‘etags.c’ was distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has
been deleted.)
- * ESS[SAS] - When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
+ • ESS[SAS] - When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their display. So,
the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is provided for
- convenience and is bound to 'C-F11'. This function requires the
- 'dd' command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
- * ESS: Completion of object names is now always done dynamically
+ convenience and is bound to ‘C-F11’. This function requires the
+ ‘dd’ command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
+ • ESS: Completion of object names is now always done dynamically
rather than allowing the option of using a pre-computed database
- (by 'ess-create-object-name-db') since modern computers seem fast
+ (by ‘ess-create-object-name-db’) since modern computers seem fast
enough for dynamic completion. (We expect few users, if any, have
been using the pre-computed database method.)
- * ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was very
+ • ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was very
slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been fixed.
Further, it was more or less broken for all versions of S-plus 6.x,
and has been fixed to work everywhere but with the Windows' GUI of
S-plus. The list of objects now shows unique names also when an
object appears more than once in the search path.
- * ESS[R]: Completion of object names now also includes those starting
+ • ESS[R]: Completion of object names now also includes those starting
with ".".
Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
- * ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default they
+ • ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default they
will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior from pre
5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in another window
of the current frame, set inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
- * New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide a way
+ • New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide a way
to pass command line arguments to starting S and R processes.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
- * bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
- * ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list if
+ • bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
+ • ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list if
ess-info not found by info
- * ESS[R]: If you have other versions of R on your exec-path, such as
+ • ESS[R]: If you have other versions of R on your exec-path, such as
"R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows, ESS will find them
- and create appropriate functions, such as 'M-x R-1.8.1' or 'M-x
- rw1081', for calling them. By default only Unix programs beginning
+ and create appropriate functions, such as ‘M-x R-1.8.1’ or ‘M-x
+ rw1081’, for calling them. By default only Unix programs beginning
"R-1" and "R-2" and Windows programs parallel to the version of R
in your exec-path will be found, but see ess-r-versions and
ess-rterm-versions for ways to find other versions of R.
- * ESS[R]: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and "rw1081"
+ • ESS[R]: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and "rw1081"
on Windows, are added to the "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
- * ESS[S]: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows
+ • ESS[S]: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows
computer, such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find them and
- create appropriate functions, such as 'M-x splus61', for calling
+ create appropriate functions, such as ‘M-x splus61’, for calling
the console version (Sqpe) inside an emacs buffer. By default only
programs installed in the default location will be found, but see
ess-SHOME-versions for ways to find other versions of S-Plus.
- * ESS[S]: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61", are
+ • ESS[S]: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61", are
added to the "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
- * ESS[R]: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to 'C-c C-q') should now quit the
+ • ESS[R]: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to ‘C-c C-q’) should now quit the
inferior R process, when issued from either the inferior buffer, or
from a .R buffer.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
- * ESS[S] (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support with icons to
+ • ESS[S] (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support with icons to
evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch there. This
code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs issues
get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your Emacs displays
images, but can be disabled with the variable ess-use-toolbar.
Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for the S-plus logo.
- * ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-graph-view ('F12') enhanced; you can specify
+ • ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-graph-view (‘F12’) enhanced; you can specify
external file viewers for each graphics file type via the alist
ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now handled by
image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by graphics
primitives as before
Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
- * ESS[BUGS]: new info documentation! now supports interactive
+ • ESS[BUGS]: new info documentation! now supports interactive
processing thanks to Aki Vehtari (mailto:[email protected]); new
architecture-independent unix support as well as support for BUGS
v. 0.5
- * ESS[SAS]: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript; info
+ • ESS[SAS]: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript; info
documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes; SAS/IML
statements/functions now highlighted; files edited remotely by
ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing SUBMIT opens a
@@ -1307,12 +1307,12 @@ Changes and New Features in 15.09:
the definition of the variable ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle to boolean
rather than 0/1; added the function ess-electric-run-semicolon
which automatically reverse indents lines containing only "run;";
- 'C-F1' creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer; 'C-F2'
- creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer; 'C-F9' opens a
+ ‘C-F1’ creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer; ‘C-F2’
+ creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer; ‘C-F9’ opens a
SAS DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW; "inferior"
- aliases for SAS batch: 'C-c C-r' for submit region, 'C-c C-b' for
- submit buffer, 'C-c C-x' for goto .log; 'C-c C-y' for goto .lst
- * ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
+ aliases for SAS batch: ‘C-c C-r’ for submit region, ‘C-c C-b’ for
+ submit buffer, ‘C-c C-x’ for goto .log; ‘C-c C-y’ for goto .lst
+ • ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore. To stop
this smart behaviour, add "(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your
.emacs after ess-site has been loaded;
@@ -1321,70 +1321,70 @@ Changes and New Features in 15.09:
improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to non-nil to get an "Imenu-S" item
on your menubar; ess-help: Now using nice underlines (instead of
'nuke-* ^H_')
- * ESS[R]: After (require 'essa-r), 'M-x ess-r-var' allows to load
- numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process; 'M-x
- ess-rdired' gives a "directory editor" of R objects; fixed
+ • ESS[R]: After (require 'essa-r), ‘M-x ess-r-var’ allows to load
+ numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process; ‘M-x
+ ess-rdired’ gives a "directory editor" of R objects; fixed
ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value bug (thanks to David
Brahm)
- * ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to ESS.
+ • ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to ESS.
Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated frames by
setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help buffers can also
open in new frames; see the documentation for ess-help-own-frame
for details. (Thanks to Kevin Rodgers for contributing code.)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
- * The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
+ • The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
- * Minor more Makefile clean up.
+ • Minor more Makefile clean up.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
- * Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML documentation are also
+ • Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML documentation are also
provided (instead of built using "make") and available on the web
as well; see ESS web page (https://ess.r-project.org/) and StatLib
(http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc)
- * Now that info documentation is available, the README.* files are no
+ • Now that info documentation is available, the README.* files are no
longer supported. However, they are still distributed for what
it's worth.
- * ESS is now an XEmacs package! See XEmacs Installation HOWTO
+ • ESS is now an XEmacs package! See XEmacs Installation HOWTO
(https://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html) for details
(specifically, items 10-15).
- * ESS[SAS]: more user-friendly enhancements for remote SAS batch jobs
+ • ESS[SAS]: more user-friendly enhancements for remote SAS batch jobs
with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT function key features
now supported). Multiple shells now supported so you can run SAS
on different computers from different buffers by setting the
buffer-local variable ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer names.
- * Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
+ • Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
- * ESS[SAS]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for SAS;
- 'F12' opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing either within emacs,
+ • ESS[SAS]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for SAS;
+ ‘F12’ opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing either within emacs,
when available, or via an external viewer; more syntax highlighting
keywords; more enhancements for remote SAS batch jobs with Kermit;
new framework for remote SAS interactive jobs, see ess-remote
- * ESS[S]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for the S
+ • ESS[S]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for the S
family
- * Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files made by
+ • Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files made by
doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
- * New 'options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R). The S
+ • New 'options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R). The S
program can determine the environment in which it is currently
running. ESS sets the option to 'iESS' or 'ddeESS' when it starts
an S language process. We recommend other specific values for S
language processes that ESS does not start.
- * New 'ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
+ • New 'ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
User may click on a word or region and then choose from the menu to
display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc. This feature is
still under development.
- * GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS & BUGS),
+ • GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS & BUGS),
(some from Stephen Eglen).
- * XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
- * XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
- * Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
- * should now work even when imenu is not available (for old
+ • XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
+ • XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
+ • Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
+ • should now work even when imenu is not available (for old
XEmacsen).
- * ESS[SAS]: XEmacs-Imenu fix; 'C-TAB' is globalized along with your
+ • ESS[SAS]: XEmacs-Imenu fix; ‘C-TAB’ is globalized along with your
function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify your SAS
library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for ess-sas-data-view
with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ Changes and New Features in 15.09:
to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent datasets, please
ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default with more
improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
- comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with 'F10' which will
+ comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with ‘F10’ which will
font-lock your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas files
accessed with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is experimental) by
setting ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh; ess-sas-submit-command and
@@ -1401,112 +1401,112 @@ Changes and New Features in 15.09:
request different executables or specify special options and the
local file variables are re-read at submit instead of only at file
open so that if you make a change it is picked up immediately;
- * ESS[BUGS]: font-lock with 'in' fixed.
- * for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
- * for Rd mode: 'C-c C-v' and 'switch-process' in menu. further, 'C-c
- C-f' prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or surrounding a word by things
+ • ESS[BUGS]: font-lock with 'in' fixed.
+ • for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
+ • for Rd mode: ‘C-c C-v’ and 'switch-process' in menu. further, ‘C-c
+ C-f’ prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or surrounding a word by things
such as \code{.}, \code{\link{.}}, \emph{.} etc.
- * new functions (ess-directory-function) and (ess-narrow-to-defun)
+ • new functions (ess-directory-function) and (ess-narrow-to-defun)
ess-directory <-> default-directory logic (Jeff Mincy).
- * Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
+ • Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
- * S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger
+ • S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger
(Windows))
- * New BUGS support through ESS[BUGS] mode (Rodney Sparapani)
+ • New BUGS support through ESS[BUGS] mode (Rodney Sparapani)
Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and .log
are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension collisions).
Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic" generation of
data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const N=" from your data
file and "monitor()/stats()" commands. Activated by pressing
- 'F12'.
- * Fixes for 'ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
- * You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS
+ ‘F12’.
+ • Fixes for 'ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
+ • You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS
function-key definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
- * 'C-Submit' a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney Sparapani)
- * New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani) To get
+ • ‘C-Submit’ a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney Sparapani)
+ • New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani) To get
the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to nil. Also
- available in .log files via 'F10'.
- * Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via 'F9' (Rodney
+ available in .log files via ‘F10’.
+ • Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via ‘F9’ (Rodney
Sparapani) You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas for it
to work.
- * User-friendly defaults for 'sas-program',
+ • User-friendly defaults for 'sas-program',
'ess-sas-batch-pre-command' and 'ess-sas-batch-post-command' as
well Customize support for these and other ESS[SAS] variables
(Rodney Sparapani)
- * 'ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via 'F11' (Rodney
+ • 'ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via ‘F11’ (Rodney
Sparapani)
- * Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in
+ • Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in
ess-emcs.el
- * defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff Mincy)
- * Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in
+ • defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff Mincy)
+ • Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in
'README'.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
- * New 'ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by
+ • New 'ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by
default. Inserts 'ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "), unless
inside string and comments where plain "_" is used instead. (MM)
- * Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
+ • Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
- * Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
- * removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
+ • Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
+ • removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need to
fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini)
- * Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
- * addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide 'M-x
- ess-add-MM-keys' a way to remap "_" to 'ess-S-assign', typically "
+ • Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
+ • addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide ‘M-x
+ ess-add-MM-keys’ a way to remap "_" to 'ess-S-assign', typically "
<- ", but customizable. (MMaechler)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
- * BUG FIXES
- * Better SAS support
+ • BUG FIXES
+ • Better SAS support
Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
- * BUG FIXES
+ • BUG FIXES
Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
- * Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney Sparapani)
- * Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini)
- * ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat
+ • Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney Sparapani)
+ • Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini)
+ • ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat
(AJRossini)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
- * Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
+ • Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
thanks to Martin Maechler.
- * Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
+ • Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
- * Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill Venables,
+ • Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill Venables,
Chuck Taylor, and others.
- * More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani and Rich
+ • More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani and Rich
Heiberger.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
- * More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to Brendan Halpin
+ • More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to Brendan Halpin
(mailto:[email protected]).
- * fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
- * README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
+ • fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
+ • README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
to David Brahm (mailto:[email protected]).
- * Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
+ • Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
- * More fixes to Stata mode
- * primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
- * Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
+ • More fixes to Stata mode
+ • primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
+ • Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
- * Stata mode works
- * Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
+ • Stata mode works
+ • Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
- * Bug fixes
- * R documentation mode defaults changed
+ • Bug fixes
+ • R documentation mode defaults changed
Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
- * able to use inferior iESS mode to communicate directly with a
+ • able to use inferior iESS mode to communicate directly with a
running S-Plus 4.x process using the Microsoft DDE protocol. We
- use the familiar (from Unix ESS) 'C-c C-n' and related key
+ use the familiar (from Unix ESS) ‘C-c C-n’ and related key
sequences to send lines from the S-mode file to the inferior S
process. We continue to edit S input files in ESS[S] mode and
transcripts of previous S sessions in ESS Transcript mode. All
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 670840f726..41ba03f8f1 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-25.01.0
+26.01.0
diff --git a/lisp/ess.el b/lisp/ess.el
index 6328395c33..b6f36f4e7f 100644
--- a/lisp/ess.el
+++ b/lisp/ess.el
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
;;
;; Maintainer: ESS Core Team <[email protected]>
;; Created: 7 Jan 1994
-;; Version: 25.01.0
+;; Version: 26.01.0
;; URL: https://ess.r-project.org/
;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25.1"))
;; ESSR-Version: 1.8
