[ESS-bugs] GH comments [Malformed background commands hang Emacs (#1110)]

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:

> ...

> Also, I think we had agreed this release should be "packaged"
> into an ESS+ release  which needs to contain at least

>      ESS and poly-R (*)

> *) at least those components of poly-R necessary for users to
>   conveniently dealy with both *.Rmd (via knitr or rmarkdown)
>   _and_  *.Rnw (via Sweave or knitr).

Seconded.  

And we should really make this as self-contained as possible: currently
the manual at
<https://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Sweave-and-AUCTeX> says

  Libraries for literate data analysis are obsolete and not loaded by
  default. This includes ess-noweb, ess-swv, and related functionality
  like Rnw-mode. Users are encouraged to switch to one of several other
  packages that deal with these modes. For example, polymode
  https://github.com/polymode/poly-R/, https://polymode.github.io/, or
  markdown-mode with edit-indirect
  https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode.

and I am not sure from the first two what I should do for Sweave (which
I use all the time) or Rmarkdown (which I never use due to the lack of
ESS support) ...

Best
-k

> This is one reason I finally had looked again at what I had and
> did update poly-R

> ... and now on my work-computer, where we have nice auto-backups
> of (almost) everything,  

> I can see, as of  January 13 ,  inside my then  ~/.emacs.d/elpa/  :

>   drwxr-xr-x.  2 maechler sfsstaff 4096 Oct 31  2018 poly-R-0.1.5
>   drwxr-xr-x.  2 maechler sfsstaff 4096 Oct 31  2018 poly-markdown-0.1.5
>   drwxr-xr-x.  2 maechler sfsstaff 4096 Oct 31  2018 poly-noweb-0.1.5
>   drwxr-xr-x.  2 maechler sfsstaff 4096 Oct 31  2018 polymode-0.1.5

> which was indeed older than 2 years.

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> Martin

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