[ESS] XLisp Anyone?

[Vitalie Spinu]

The mode is XLS-mode and is defined in ess-xls-d.el. That should
work. The interaction with the sub-process will probably not work as
expected. But then you can always use standard emacs inferior-lisp for
that.

   Vitalie

 >>> Steve Nunez on Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:46:16 -0700 wrote:

 > Thanks. Any ideas on where to start? Is there an xlisp mode that does
 > work? 

 > On 9/17/14, 19:19, "Vitalie Spinu" <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:

 >> 
 >> We dropped the xlisp support 1 or even 2 years ago. We don't have the
 >> resources to maintain things that nobody is using anymore. The old code
 >> is still there and interested parties can attempt to make it work, but
 >> that would probably mean some considerable elisp hackery.
 >> 
 >> Vitalie
 >> 
 >> >>> Steve Nunez on Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:17:38 -0700 wrote:
 >> 
 >> > Greetings All,
 >> 
 >> > I.ve decided to resurrect a zombie and use xlispstat for some
 >> > experimentation. I currently use ESS with R, and would like to get it
 >> going
 >> > with xls. Documentation in the .el files seems to indicate that this
 >> is, or
 >> > was, possible. Grepping through the code I see a number of references
 >> to XLS
 >> > mode, but I can.t seem to find any way to invoke it on a lisp file. I.m
 >> > using emacs 24, and using the customisations pane I can see the value
 >> for
 >> > inferior-xls-program-name, and it.s set correctly, but M-x XLS gives
 >> me OEno
 >> > match.. There.s still a documentation page on the github repository on
 >> ESS
 >> > and XLisp-stat, though not updated since 1997.
 >> 
 >> > Anyone have an idea if this can be made to work and, if so, how?
 >> 
 >> > Cheers,
 >> > - SteveN