You need a more recent company. I suggest removing all debian emacs packages and installing everything from melpa.
On Jan 15, 2017 10:07 PM, "Mathieu Basille" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > After some time using auto-complete in Emacs, I'm now trying to modernize > my configuration and switch to Company. I understand that Company is fully > integrated to ESS now, and works out of the box, however, I get a weird > error message when I try to "use" it. > > Here are the steps that I followed: > > * Install Emacs 25.1, ESS 16.10 and Company (elpa-company) 0.8.12 from > Debian repository (I am running Testing/Stretch). > > * Prepare a minimal .emacs.d/init.el with only this: > > (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'global-company-mode) > > (require 'ess-site) > > * Open any file with Emacs: auto-completion works as expected, for instance > if I type the same word twice, auto-completion kicks in for the second > type. > > * Open a .R script in Emacs, open R (M-x R), and try auto-completion on a > function (for instance, typing "hi" to get hist/history/... Auto-completion > does not work, and I get a message in the echo area instead: > > Company: An error occurred in auto-begin > Company: Back-end (company-R-args company-R-objects :separate) error > "Symbol’s function definition is void: :separate" with args (ignore-case) > > I couldn't find much help in the doc, or other on-line resources. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, > Mathieu Basille. > > > -- > > Mathieu Basille > > [email protected] | http://ase-research.org/basille > +1 954-577-6314 | University of Florida FLREC > > « Le tout est de tout dire, et je manque de mots > Et je manque de temps, et je manque d'audace. » > — Paul Éluard > > This message is signed to guarantee its authenticity. > For a true private correspondence, use my public key > to encrypt your messages: > > http://mathieu.basille.net/pub.asc > > Learn more: http://mzl.la/1BsOGiZ > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
