[ESS] Introducing Polymode

[Vitalie Spinu]

Hi Mathieu, 

You are too much ahead of time.  Eieio namespace cleanup happened
recently in emacs sources, and object-name was substituted with
eieio-object-name. The guys probably forgot to define an alias, or more
likely they created an eieio-compat.el (or similar) package. I still
have to check that out, but not in the next 2-3 days. You can look for
it yourself of course, and if they created a compat package, just
require it. There was a thread on that in february on emacs-devel.

    HTH, 
    Vitalie

  >> Mathieu Basille <basille at ase-research.org>
  >> on Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:23:06 -0400 wrote:

  > Dear Vitalie,

  > It's great to hear from your efforts in Polymode! I just tried to use it on Rmd
  > files on Emacs Snapshot [24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of
  > 2013-03-25] on Debian. First I tried to simply add the following to my .emacs:

  > (setq load-path (append '("/home/mathieu/.emacs-site/polymode/"
  >       "/home/mathieu/.emacs-site/polymode/modes") load-path))
  > (require 'poly-R)
  > (require 'poly-markdown)
  > (require 'poly-noweb)

  > As stated in the above code, I downloaded (using git) Polymode in
  > /home/mathieu/.emacs-site/polymode/

  > If I now visit a .Rmd file, I get this after startup:

  > Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 1) signaled (void-variable
  > object-name)
  > Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 522) signaled (void-variable
  > object-name)

  > And from time to time if I navigate in the file:

  > polymode error: Symbol's value as variable is void: object-name

  > I don't know if this is useful, but Emacs indicates (Markdown Rmd vl Wrap), as
  > compared to (Markdown vl Wrap) without Polymode. If I try a polymode function
  > (such as M-n C-n), I get this:

  > equal: Symbol's value as variable is void: object-name
  > polymode error: Symbol's value as variable is void: object-name

  > Appart of that, not much happened compared to regular Markdown mode. Shouldn't
  > it load R (minor) mode in R code chunks? I also tried to remove everything from
  > my .emacs, and use only the few lines above, with the exact same result. Am I
  > missing anything here?

  > Thanks again a lot for your work on this!
  > Mathieu.

  > Le 03/26/2013 02:26 PM, Vitalie Spinu a écrit :
  >> 
  >> Hi All,
  >> 
  >> I would like to announce a development version of new multi-major-mode
  >> called polymode. Source, screenshots and installation instructions are
  >> here:
  >> 
  >> https://github.com/vitoshka/polymode>
  >> 
  >> There is still some work to be done as it is not very stable as yet. I
  >> have just realized that I won't be able to pursue very active
  >> development for the weeks to come, so I decided to announce it right
  >> away. This includes some indentation issues and unstable font-lock in
  >> C++ submodes. C++R seems to work fine.
  >> 
  >> Currently it has builtin supports for Rnw, Rmd, Rhtml, Rbrew, Rcpp, cppR
  >> and "live" R examples in Rd and ess-help buffers. Adding new polymodes
  >> is literally about 25 lines of declarations. See "modes" directory and
  >> particularly poly-R.el. Also look in test directory for test
  >> examples. The interface is not fully settled as yet and thus, not
  >> documented.
  >> 
  >> There is also a default association with md extension. This basically
  >> means that as long as you have a proper declaration ```foo, and foo-mode
  >> function exists the chunk will be initialized with that mode.
  >> 
  >> It would be really nice if enthusiastic people can try it out and report
  >> bugs/comments/suggestions, either directly to me, or preferably on the
  >> github bug tracker. But please read the words warning first;)
  >> 
  >> Hopefully it will be useful to some people even at this stage.
  >> 
  >> Vitalie
  >> 
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