[ESS] ESS 13.05 release next week: beta testers welcome
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Thu May 9 22:25:39 CEST 2013
As far as I could remember Vincent's distribution sets and loads ESS
prior to the loading of user .emacs file. The file is called
site-start. You have to edit that one to point to a new location.
I guess Vincent's distribution is not really intended for beta testers:)
Vitalie
>> Brian Diggs <diggsb at ohsu.edu>
>> on Thu, 9 May 2013 13:05:51 -0700 wrote:
> On 5/9/2013 6:27 AM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> We, the developers of ESS, are planning to release ESS 13.05 next week.
>> This is a good time for the brave beta testers among you to try it out.
>> You can find out how to install the development version at
>> http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download>
>> There are several new/improved features which you can see at
>> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#New-features>
>> Two of the new/improved features in particular are ElDoc and tracebug.
>> You can find more information about ElDoc at
>> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#ESS-ElDoc>
>> Note that you can turn off ElDoc, by placing this in your ~/.emacs
>> file {prior to (require 'ess-site) }:
>> (setq ess-use-eldoc nil)
>>
>> You can find more information about tracebug at
>> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#ESS-tracebug>
>> You can toggle tracebug off/on via issuing the following command:
>> M-x ess-tracebug
>>
>> If you find any problems, then please report them here. Thanks
> I thought I'd try the development version to see if some of problems I've been
> having are fixed, but I am having problems even getting it to a point where I
> can test it.
> I am using Vincent Goulet's modified emacs distribution for Windows
> GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
> (Is there a way of determining within emacs what the "modified" version is? I
> think I'm using eamcs-24.2-modified-7, but I'm not sure how to verify that.)
> I've cloned a copy of the git repository into ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp so it is in
> the ESS directory there. I put
> (setq load-path
> (append '("~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/")
> load-path))
> ;; where the development git checkout resides
> (setq load-path
> (append '("~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/ESS/")
> load-path))
> at the top of my .emacs file. [I don't know if I need both of those or not; my
> emacs hacking skills are not that great.] However, I still seem to be getting
> the version of ess which comes with the distribution; ess-version gives
> ess-version : 12.09-2 [rev. 5395 (2013-01-10)]
> I don't want to replace ess that comes with the distribution (in c:/Program
> Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/ess/) because I want to easily revert back
> to a "good" version when I'm not testing.
> If it is useful, here is the value of load-path
> ("c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/auctex" "c:/Program Files
> (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/ess/" "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/ESS/"
> "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp"
> "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/ess" "c:/Program Files
> (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/org" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
> 24.2/site-lisp/site-start.d" "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
> 24.2/../site-lisp" "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp" "c:/Program
> Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/vc" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
> 24.2/lisp/url" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/textmodes"
> "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/progmodes" "c:/Program Files
> (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/play" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/org"
> "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/nxml" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU
> Emacs 24.2/lisp/net" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/mh-e"
> "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/mail" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU
> Emacs 24.2/lisp/language" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
> 24.2/lisp/international" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/gnus"
> "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/eshell" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU
> Emacs 24.2/lisp/erc" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/emulation"
> "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp" "c:/Program Files
> (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/cedet" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
> 24.2/lisp/calendar" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/calc"
> "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/obsolete" "C:/Program Files
> (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/leim")
> I don't know what is causing the "wrong" ess to be found. I tried eliminating
> everything in my .emacs file except those load-path adjustments, but that didn't
> help. What is the right way to do this?
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