[ESS-bugs] [ESS] Getting SAS to work

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Cameron" == Cameron Hooper <chooper at umich.edu>
>>>>>     on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:20:14 -0400 writes:

    Cameron> On Jul 29, 2005, at 10:10 PM, Richard M. Heiberger
    Cameron> wrote:

    >> I did mean
    >> 
    >>> M-:(define-key sas-mode-local-map "\C-c\C-r"
    >>> 'ess-eval-region)? This did work!
    >>> 

    Cameron> How do I make the change permanent? I put the line

    Cameron> (define-key sas-mode-local-map "\C-c\C-r" 'ess-eval-region)

    Cameron> in my dot emacs file. Now I get the following error
    Cameron> when I start emacs:

    Cameron>     Wrong type argument: keymapp, nil

yes, since  sas-mode-local-map  doesn't exist at that time (and
shouldn't).

The correct way to such things is via (add-hook ..)
in our case, most probably

(add-hook
  'sas-mode-hook
  '(lambda ()
     (define-key sas-mode-local-map "\C-c\C-r" 'ess-eval-region)))

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But then, I think you should probably adopt Rodney Sparapany's advice of
fixing the bogous definition in  <ESS>/lisp/essd-sas.el

Regards,
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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