[ESS] Manually turn on ess script mode

[Cesar Rabak]

Em 6/3/2011 13:17, Tyler Smith escreveu:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I'm marking a bunch of student R assignments. Some of the students have
 > submitted files without the .R extension, so ess doesn't know to turn on
 > when I open them. I can resave them with the correct extension and
 > reopen them. However, I could skip this step if there was a way to
 > explicitly tell emacs to start ess[s] mode. Is this possible? The manual
 > only says that the mode should start automatically, but doesn't indicate
 > if it's possible to make it start when the hooks don't get triggered.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
Tyler,

Ask your students to have at the first line of their files:
# -*- R -*-

This will switch emacs to R-mode.

HTH

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