[ESS] How to type an underscore "_" in emacs with ESS in a SAS program

[Patrick Connolly]

On Thu, 11-Apr-2019 at 11:58AM -0600, Karen Taves via ESS-help wrote:

|> I am new to using ESS and am using ESS 18.10.2 and trying to type
|> an underscore "_" in emacs in a SAS program and am getting the
|> following error message: Symbol's function definition is void:
|> ess-smart-S-assign

I don't know about SAS, but in R, typing a second underscore bypasses
what normally happens, i.e. makes an assignment, i.e. " <- " (without
the quotes).

HTH

|> 
|> I suspect that I need to add something to my .emacs file. 
|> My .emacs file as the following 2 lines (and I don’t understand the format of this file so need specific instruction):
|> (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/scripts/ess-18.10.2/lisp")
|> (load "ess-autoloads”)
|> 
|> Thank you,
|> Karen
|> 
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