>>>>> Paul Johnson <[email protected]>
>>>>> on Thu, 4 May 2017 21:49:57 -0500 writes:
> Please raise your hand if you have EVER used # to document R code in
> the way mentioned on the LISP coding standards page.
I have... and still do "all the time".
That's also true for (parts of) base R source code.
Martin
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> pj
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Brahm, David
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Since we're on the topic, is there a style to make the # comments
right-justified against
>> "fill-column" (which is 97 for me, as that makes printouts look good)
and/or the window
>> width? So as you type the comment, it marches leftward. E.g.:
>>
>> x <- y + z # This
comment ends on column 97
>>
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567
>>
>> -- David Brahm ([email protected])
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ESS-help [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Charles C. Berry
>> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 11:38 AM
>> To: Ista Zahn
>> Cc: Stephen Eglen; ess-help
>> Subject: Re: [ESS] Ever consider changing indentation on #?
>>
>> On Thu, 4 May 2017, Ista Zahn wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Lionel Henry <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4 mai 2017, at 16:22, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I understand I can fix my init.el go avoid this, but it would be nicer
>>>>> for my purpose
>>>>> if this were in ESS itself, because I keep telling students to use it
>>>>> and they are put off/discouraged
>>>>> by this.
>>>>
>>>> Emacs is for people willing to put the effort into customisation.
>>>> Your students are probably better off with RStudio. That said
>>>> I agree that good defaults are important.
>>>
>>
>> And there are a bunch of styles from which to choose a personal default.
>> See below.
>>
>>> Yes, IMO Emacs/ESS isn't going to compete with Rstudio on
>>> out-of-the-box convenience. But we can compete on features! Put this
>>> in your config file
>>>
>>> (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook
>>> (lambda()
>>> ;; don't indent comments
>>> (setq ess-indent-with-fancy-comments nil)
>>> ;; turn on outline mode
>>> (setq-local outline-regexp "[# ]+")
>>> (outline-minor-mode t)))
>>>
>>> and not only will single # comments not be aligned at comment-column,
>>> but code folder will work too!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There are `off-the-shelf' styles like `Rstudio' that might satisfy Paul's
>> student.
>>
>> Setting `ess-default-style' to `Rstudio' gives these settings:
>>
>> (RStudio
>> (ess-indent-offset . 2)
>> (ess-offset-arguments . open-delim)
>> (ess-offset-arguments-newline . prev-line)
>> (ess-offset-block . prev-line)
>> (ess-offset-continued . straight)
>> (ess-align-nested-calls)
>> (ess-align-arguments-in-calls "function[ ]*(")
>> (ess-align-continuations-in-calls)
>> (ess-align-blocks)
>> (ess-indent-from-lhs arguments)
>> (ess-indent-from-chain-start . t)
>> (ess-indent-with-fancy-comments))
>>
>>
>> Or one can customize the `OWN' style and select it. See the
>> `ess-style-alist' docstring for more details.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Chuck
>>
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