[R] kate editor for R

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:06:59PM -0600, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer to emacs-snapshot-gtk Dirk.  I installed it in 
> debian but it looked virtually identical to the emacs21 I've been using.

Note that it does not replace the emacs21 binary, so you need to start it
as 'emacs-snapshot-gtk'.  

Likeweise you need to tell R/ESS to use emacslient.emacs-snapshot
instead of emacsclient as the value of optios("editor")

Below is what one of Edge machines as work has:
   
~:> ls -l /usr/bin/emacs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      23 2006-04-05 12:26 /usr/bin/emacs ->
/etc/alternatives/emacs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 2006-12-05 11:27 /usr/bin/emacs21 ->
emacs21-x
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4412588 2006-09-15 12:35 /usr/bin/emacs21-x
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      29 2006-04-05 12:26 /usr/bin/emacsclient
-> /etc/alternatives/emacsclient
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    7080 2006-09-15 12:35
/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs21
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    9248 2006-09-19 16:28
/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs-snapshot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      32 2006-10-19 18:55
/usr/bin/emacs-snapshot -> /etc/alternatives/emacs-snapshot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5674120 2006-09-19 16:28
/usr/bin/emacs-snapshot-gtk


Hth, Dirk


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