[R] kate editor for R

[Marc Schwartz]

xft anti-aliasing is incorporated into the version 23 unicode trunk.

So it looks great on a hi-res LCD panel. Without xft, even using
Bitstream fonts, it was still pretty rough on the eyes.

It also fully supports GTK widgets, which is great if you are using
GNOME, which I do.

xft was added as a patch to version 22, but it was not very stable.

Note that version 23 is in alpha status, so use at your own risk if you
decide to pursue this. 21 is still the current stable release version,
but 23 has been rock solid for me.

I can provide you with a shell script to build it. Let me know.

Best regards,

Marc

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 03:59 +0100, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! I'll give it a try. (But
> still, why emacs23? what is missing in v. 21 that you get in 23?).
> 
> Best,
> 
> R.
> 
> On 1/19/07, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:09 +0100, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > I had problems with one of the packages ecb depends upon (semantic ?), and
> > > emacs-snapshot. IIRC it was a documented problem related to a bug in semantic
> > > (?); maybe it's been fixed now. But what does emacs-snapshot-gtk provide you
> > > now (besides the pretinness) that you'd miss with 21-4?
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Ramon,
> >
> > Just a quick heads up on the ECB issue.
> >
> > I am using Emacs 23 from CVS and had to update ECB and the associated
> > packages to use this version of Emacs. I have emacs 23 installed and run
> > from a separate download folder, so that I do not overwrite the
> > installed stable version.
> >
> > I use the CEDET cedet-1.0pre3.tar.gz aggregate package from
> > http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ as well as the ECB cvs snap shot package
> > ecb.tar.gz from http://ecb.sourceforge.net/downloads.html.
> >
> > The CEDET package includes cogre, ede, eieio, semantic and speedbar.
> >
> > Extract these two files and then modify ~/.emacs with the following:
> >
> > ;; Load ECB
> > (setq semantic-load-turn-everything-on t)
> > (load-file "/PATH/TO/CEDET/cedet-1.0pre3/common/cedet.el")
> >
> > (add-to-list 'load-path "/PATH/TO/ECB/ecb-snap")
> > (require 'ecb)
> >
> >
> > And all seems well.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Marc Schwartz
> >