[ESS] ESS 25.01.0 released on ELPA

Mon Feb 17 13:53:35 CET 2025

Thank you for Emacs Modified! :-)

Best,

R.

On Mon, 17-February-2025, at 03:43:23, Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet using me.com> wrote:
> 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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>> --
>> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
>> Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-31
>> Facultad de Medicina
>> Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
>> Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
>> 28029 Madrid
>> Spain
>>
>> Phone: +34-91-497-2412
>>
>> Email: rdiaz02 using gmail.com
>>       r.diaz using uam.es
>>       ramon.diaz using iib.uam.es
>>
>> https://ligarto.org/rdiaz

--
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-31
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
28029 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412

Email: rdiaz02 using gmail.com
       r.diaz using uam.es
       ramon.diaz using iib.uam.es

https://ligarto.org/rdiaz