[ESS] ess-mode: Wrong type argument: syntax-table-p, nil

[Leon]

It seems impossible for me to configure a nice fontset for emacs 2.1.x
so I gave up. So far emacs 22 rocks. I'm using emacs cvs with xft and
use Bitstream mono.

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

>>>>>> "Leon" == Leon  <sdl.web at gmail.com>
>>>>>>     on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:06:35 +0000 writes:
>
>     Leon> I have (require 'ess-site) in ~/.emacs, but the error
>     Leon> is still there. Which version of emacs are you using?
>     Leon> I suspect it might be the reason.
>
> I had started to use emacs 22.0.50 (the "alpha" pre-release of
> the next version of GNU Emacs) for a while, just in order to
> test ESS  (and because 22.x has a few nice extra features).
> I even had automated the building of 22.0.50 from CVS about
> every week or so...  But a few weeks ago, I had to give up using
> it since it seemed ``completely broken'' at least for my
> (extensive!) initialization {i.e. loading of ~/.emacs and dependencies}.
>
> So my own conclusion has been that 22.0.50 has been too much broken
> for me to be usable for the time being.
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
>     Leon> "A.J. Rossini" <blindglobe at gmail.com> writes:
>
>     >> I've not seen it, but it sounds like an initialization
>     >> problem.
>     >> 
>     >> On 2/22/06, Leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >>> Hi,
>     >>> 
>     >>> Ess-mode 5.2.12 produces an error as in the title of
>     >>> this post under GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1.
>     >>> 
>     >>> But after other commands such as 'R', a second run of
>     >>> ess-mode is fine. Is this a bug?
>     >>> 
>     >>> --
>     >>> Leon
>     >>> 
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>     >>> 
>     >> 
>     >> 
>     >> --
>     >> best, -tony
>     >> 
>     >> blindglobe at gmail.com Muttenz, Switzerland.  "Commit
>     >> early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which
>     >> we can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>     >> 
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>
>     Leon> -- Leon
>
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-- 
Leon