[ESS] Ever consider changing indentation on #?

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

How do you get the code line up like this with #?  When I have code on a
line and press `#` I just get a # character - no indentation.

Best,
Kasper

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet using me.com>
wrote:

> > Le 4 mai 2017 à 22:49, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 using gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Please raise your hand if you have EVER used # to document R code in
> > the way mentioned on the LISP coding standards page.
>
> I do, all the time ever since I (more or less by accident) discovered the
> functionality. Actually, all the code I distribute to my students is
> commented this way; see e.g.
>
>         https://github.com/vigou3/introduction-programmation-r/
> blob/master/bases.R
>
> It should be noted that this commenting style also works in LaTeX mode
> (granted, a single % somewhere on the right being less useful with text).
> For me, it just makes more sense that the higher the number of comment
> markers, the stronger the emphasis (or vice versa).
>
> Call me an old timer ;-), but I would vote against a change to the
> *default* behaviour. I see this commenting style as pure Emacsism and would
> expect any programming mode (Markdown excepted for obvious reasons) to
> respect it by default. Furthermore, I think ESS does not have to play catch
> up or to adapt to RStudio.
>
> Now, that said, I'm all in favour to have an easy to toggle ESS option to
> change Emacs/lisp commenting style to Markdown style (since that's what
> we're talking about) if someone wants to provide the patch.
>
> v.
>
> > pj
> >
> > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Brahm, David
> > <David.Brahm using geodecapital.com> wrote:
> >> Since we're on the topic, is there a style to make the # comments
> right-justified against
> >> "fill-column" (which is 97 for me, as that makes printouts look good)
> and/or the window
> >> width?  So as you type the comment, it marches leftward.  E.g.:
> >>
> >> x <- y + z                                                       # This
> comment ends on column 97
> >> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
> 1234567890123456789012345678901234567
> >>
> >> -- David Brahm (brahm using alum.mit.edu)
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ESS-help [mailto:ess-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Charles C. Berry
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 11:38 AM
> >> To: Ista Zahn
> >> Cc: Stephen Eglen; ess-help
> >> Subject: Re: [ESS] Ever consider changing indentation on #?
> >>
> >> On Thu, 4 May 2017, Ista Zahn wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Lionel Henry <lionel.hry using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 4 mai 2017, at 16:22, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 using gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I understand I can fix my init.el go avoid this, but it would be
> nicer
> >>>>> for my purpose
> >>>>> if this were in ESS itself, because I keep telling students to use it
> >>>>> and they are put off/discouraged
> >>>>> by this.
> >>>>
> >>>> Emacs is for people willing to put the effort into customisation.
> >>>> Your students are probably better off with RStudio. That said
> >>>> I agree that good defaults are important.
> >>>
> >>
> >> And there are a bunch of styles from which to choose a personal default.
> >> See below.
> >>
> >>> Yes, IMO Emacs/ESS isn't going to compete with Rstudio on
> >>> out-of-the-box convenience. But we can compete on features! Put this
> >>> in your config file
> >>>
> >>> (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook
> >>>         (lambda()
> >>>           ;; don't indent comments
> >>>           (setq ess-indent-with-fancy-comments nil)
> >>>           ;; turn on outline mode
> >>>           (setq-local outline-regexp "[# ]+")
> >>>           (outline-minor-mode t)))
> >>>
> >>> and not only will single # comments not be aligned at comment-column,
> >>> but code folder will work too!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> There are `off-the-shelf' styles like `Rstudio' that might satisfy
> Paul's
> >> student.
> >>
> >> Setting `ess-default-style' to `Rstudio' gives these settings:
> >>
> >>  (RStudio
> >>   (ess-indent-offset . 2)
> >>   (ess-offset-arguments . open-delim)
> >>   (ess-offset-arguments-newline . prev-line)
> >>   (ess-offset-block . prev-line)
> >>   (ess-offset-continued . straight)
> >>   (ess-align-nested-calls)
> >>   (ess-align-arguments-in-calls "function[     ]*(")
> >>   (ess-align-continuations-in-calls)
> >>   (ess-align-blocks)
> >>   (ess-indent-from-lhs arguments)
> >>   (ess-indent-from-chain-start . t)
> >>   (ess-indent-with-fancy-comments))
> >>
> >>
> >> Or one can customize the `OWN' style and select it. See the
> >> `ess-style-alist' docstring for more details.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >> Chuck
> >>
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> >
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