[ESS] ESS 13.05 release next week: beta testers welcome

[Brian Diggs]

On 5/9/2013 1:25 PM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>
> 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:)

Thankfully, it is not as bad as that. Off-list, Ahmadou Dicko pointed 
out to me that I put the wrong path in. It needs to be

(setq load-path
       (append '("~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/ESS/lisp")
               load-path))

noting the "lisp" at the end that I didn't have before. Putting that at 
the beginning of my .emacs file now gives me an ess-version of

ess-version : 13.05 [<unknown>]

after restarting emacs. So I can happily test away and just comment out 
these lines when I want to go back to the shipped version. Also, I 
realized I was behind the curve with the emacs distribution and have 
upgraded that to emacs-24.3-modified-1

>      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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Brian S. Diggs, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery
Oregon Health & Science University