[ESS-bugs] font lock in transcript mode with %

Richard M. Heiberger rmh at temple.edu
Sun Feb 12 03:13:26 CET 2017


This does it.  Thank you.
Rich


On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Lionel Henry <lionel.hry at gmail.com> wrote:
> This should now be fixed:
>
> https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/commit/ba1f578eefecf08a0c409f69ca2ec2b4577a41d8
>
> Lionel
>
>
> On 1 févr. 2017, at 15:10, Lionel Henry <lionel.hry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I see this as incorrect behavior for the ESS Transcript buffer, the .R
> buffer, and the Examples section of the *help[R] ()* files.
>
>
> It's incorrect behaviour for any buffer that includes output as output
> can contain percentages. That's why the iESS buffer does not treat
> %op% as pair-delimited, and it should be the same in a .Rout buffer.
>
> On the other hand for R buffers and the examples sections it's correct
> behaviour. Treating %op% as pair-delimited allows syntactic actions
> over those operators (they are considered as sexp by Emacs), and is
> the most efficient and robust way of fontifying %ops%.
>
> Lionel
>
>
>
> On 1 févr. 2017, at 06:08, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
>
> ess 16.10
>
> In *R* (iESS [R]: run ElDoc) this line is font-locked entirely black
>
> 95% family-wise confidence level
>
> I see this as correct behavior for the iESS buffer .
>
> The same line in a .Rout file (ESS Transcript [])
> is entirely blue starting with the "%", as are all succeeding lines
> until a closing "%" is observed.
> That is, the opening "%" in interpreted as the beginning of a
> %anything% operator.
> Since there is actually no closing "%", the rest of the file is blue.
>
> I see this as incorrect behavior for the ESS Transcript buffer, the .R
> buffer, and the
> Examples section of the *help[R] ()* files.
>
> I would like to see %anything% returned to the previous fontification
> of ordinary
> binary functions similar to + and *.
>
> This shows up in the printed output of
>  npk.aov <- aov(yield ~ block, npk)
>  confint(multcomp::glht(npk.aov))
>  HH::mmc(npk.aov)
>
> Rich
>
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