[ESS] ESS 25.01.0 released on ELPA

[Vincent Goulet]

Many thanks, Ramon!

A new release of my distributions incorporating your fix are under way. Let's now hope that it will make it's way upstream.

Best,

v.

> Le 16 févr. 2025 à 16:53, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02 using gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> (It didn't occur to me to try this before sending the other email. Sorry)
> 
> 
> If in line 54 of file polymode-base.el (in polymode-20230317.1218) I change 'latex-mode by 'LaTeX-mode things seem to work.
> 
> Instead of modifying polymode's source, I can make that change in the :config  part of my polymode's use-package section:
> 
> (use-package polymode
>   blablabla
>   :config
>   (define-hostmode poly-latex-hostmode :mode 'LaTeX-mode)
> )
> 
> From emacs -Q this seems to work
> 
> (package-initialize)
> 
> (with-eval-after-load 'polymode
>  (define-hostmode poly-latex-hostmode :mode 'LaTeX-mode)
>  )
> 
> Best,
> 
> R.
> 
> On Sat, 01-February-2025, at 02:04:20, Vincent Goulet via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>> Hey Gang,
>> 
>> I'm stuck. In the current released version of my distro, packages like ESS, AUCTeX and polymode are installed from the sources and loaded the old-fashioned way, that is:
>> 
>> (load "auctex.el" nil t t)
>> (load "ess-autoloads")
>> (require 'poly-R)
>> (require 'poly-noweb)
>> 
>> Furthermore, .Rnw files are associated with poly-noweb-mode:
>> 
>> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.Rnw" . poly-noweb-mode))
>> 
>> If I visit a .Rnw file, I get both the Polymode and AUCTeX menus (LaTeX, Command). The mode line indicates LaTeX/MP and PM (or PM-Rnw). All good.
>> 
>> Now, with my upcoming distro, the packages are installed using
>> package-install and the package system is initialized in the site
>> configuration file [it contains (package-initialiaze)]. The thing is, when
>> I visit a .Rnw file, I get the polymode menu, but only the built-in TeX
>> ones (like TeX) and the mode line indicates LaTeX and PM.
>> 
>> The files contain the the file variable
>> 
>> %%% mode: noweb
>> 
>> I tried changing this to a few values, to no avail.
>> 
>> Anyone can help me around here?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> v.
>> 
>> 
>>> Le 28 janv. 2025 à 15:00, Vincent Goulet via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Hi Rodney and all,
>>> 
>>> As I was rolling up my sleeves to prepare an update of my distributions
>>> to include the newest ESS, I learned that AUCTeX, now in the 14.x series,
>>> is no longer distributed as a standalone tarball. Users should now
>>> install it using the Emacs package system.
>>> 
>>> I was briefly back at the question I asked here a few months ago: is it
>>> time to retire my distributions since most additions can now be installed
>>> using package-install? At the time, some people showed continued interest
>>> for an out-of-the-box distribution. I'm probably one of them.
>>> Furthermore, I offer some customizations and extensions (Hunspell and
>>> dictionaries, for example) not as readily available elsewhere.
>>> 
>>> After some fiddling, I found a way to reconcile my distributions and the
>>> Emacs package system: install packages in a sysadmin way inside the Emacs
>>> tree and ship this. When users install the distribution, the package
>>> system is already initialized (therefore users should *not* include
>>> (package-initialize) in their init file). The nice thing for the
>>> maintainer: building the distributions is now much simpler and faster.
>>> 
>>> I'm testing this a little before I release updates, but so far, so good!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> v.
>>> 
>>>> Le 11 janv. 2025 à 13:42, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Gang:
>>>> 
>>>> ESS-core is pleased to announce that our latest annual release installment
>>>> is now available on ELPA.  We have a few bug-fixes and new features.
>>>> 
>>>> The biggest change is in philosophy as described in the first bullet below�
>>>> 
>>>> Changes and New Features in 25.01.0:
>>>> 
>>>> * polymode: In our transition from literate libraries (such as noweb
>>>> documented below with respect to 19.04), we now recommend the polymode
>>>> packages as a more suitable replacement. Furthermore, we suggest the
>>>> related polymodes including poly-noweb, poly-markdown and poly-R
>>>> (installed in that order). The package polymode itself, as well as the
>>>> polymodes packages, are all on MELPA rather than ELPA. Therefore, you
>>>> need to add MELPA to the list of installation archives as follows.
>>>> �(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa-stable" .
>>>> https://stable.melpa.org/packages/))� for M-x package-install
>>>> *   ESS[R]: The shorthand notation for lambda functions and the question mark are now fontified as keywords. Contributed by Maxime Pettinger.
>>>> *   ESS[SAS]: Developed new comprehensive lists of PROCs and functions for syntax highlighting. See etc/proc.sas and etc/func.sas.
>>>> 
>>>> https://ess.r-project.org
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him
>>>> President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
>>>> Division of Biostatistics, Data Science Institute
>>>> Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
>>>> 
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