[ESS] Parenthesis highlighting in ESS 13.09

Mark Seeto markseeto at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 10:12:13 CET 2014


Thanks for your reply Vitalie.

By "highlighting" I just mean parenthesis matching. I don't know a lot
about Emacs and ESS, but I assumed that because the "problem" occurs
in .R files but not in .txt files, that it was to do with ESS and not
with Emacs itself.

Thanks,
Mark

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> It is not very clear what do you mean by highlighting. ESS doesn't
> highlight parenthesis and never did. There is parenthesis matching in
> core emacs (see variable blink-matching-paren and (elisp) Blinking) and
> there are several libraries to highlight parenthesis. Good choice IMO is
> rainbow-delimiters, also available from MELPA.
>
>    Vitalie
>
>
>  >>> Mark Seeto on Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:05:43 +1100 wrote:
>
>  > Dear ESS group,
>  > On Windows, I recently updated from GNU Emacs 23.2.1 with ESS 5.13 to
>  > GNU Emacs 24.3.1 with ESS 13.09 (Vincent Goulet's distribution). In
>  > the new ESS, the highlighting of matching parentheses does not seem to
>  > work as well as before. My .emacs file has not changed.
>
>  > For example, if I type
>
>  > for (k in 1:length(x))
>
>  > in a .R file in the new version, there will be highlighting for the
>  > outer pair of parentheses, but not for the inner pair. In the old
>  > version, there is highlighting for both pairs. If I type it into a
>  > .txt file in the new version, there is highlighting for both pairs.
>
>  > If I just type
>
>  > length(x)
>
>  > in a .R file in the new version, there is highlighting.
>
>  > I would appreciate any suggestions on how this can be fixed.
>
>  > Thanks,
>  > Mark Seeto
>
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