[ESS-bugs] new bug: Sweave not connecting to R correctly: value of `ess-dialect' is nil

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 19:52:50 CEST 2012


  >> Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
  >> on Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:38:40 -0500 wrote:

  > On 10/02/2012 12:23 PM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
  >> noweb-font-lock-max-initial-chunks is a variable defined in `ess-noweb-font-lock-mode.el'.
  >> Its value is 2
  >> 
  >> Documentation:
  >> Maximum number of chunks to fontify initially.
  >> If nil, will fontify the entire buffer when
  >> noweb-font-lock-initial-fontify-buffer is called
  >> 
  >> 
  >> I suggest setting it to a larger number (30?). With current computers
  >> it's a fraction of a second anyways. Otherwise most of the Rnw buffer is
  >> unfontified at the beginning, which is pretty annoying.
  >> 
  >> Vitalie

  > Far be it from me to get overly excited about Sweave...
  > But, why don't you just set it to nil?

Just to avoid clogging folks who write books in one Rnw file:) Setting
it to 30 will fontify the whole buffer in most cases. So in that respect
30 or nil are almost equivalent.

    Vitalie



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