(address line truncated) Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on 20 Aug 2004 12:01:39 +0200 writes: > > PD> Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >I could have sent this to the ESS or Xemacs devel list, but ESS & Xemacs' > >> >attempt to find balanced parentheses accross many lines seems sensible, > >> >and is needed with very long functions. > >> > >> Yes, it's sensible to try, but it is a bug that they don't fail > >> gracefully. > > PD> (Actually, it is not sensible; ESS should try harder to figure out > PD> what is actually R code. Much as I love ESS, it is a persistent fly in > PD> the ointment when the opening blurb comes up with "for" and "in" in > PD> magenta.) > Agreed with all -- it's an ESS bug. I've made stabs in the recent past at getting R's syntax into semantic (the Emacs parser tool) to make much of these sorts of things more automatic (as well as provide syntactical (?) completion :-). I'll not have time again until next year, probably. -- Anthony Rossini Research Associate Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ Biomedical and Health Informatics University of Washington Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center UW (Tu/Th/F): 206-616-7630 FAX=206-543-3461 | Voicemail is unreliable FHCRC (M/W): 206-667-7025 FAX=206-667-4812 | use Email CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachme...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
