[R-sig-Debian] gedit with .r and .R

[denis brion]

I am very surprised by gedit's bad properties:
the following journal led to gedit syntax highlighting *R, *r, and *sh files:
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1104  gedit  cartetempe1.r
 1105  gedit cartetempe1.R
 1106  ls *sh
 1107  gedit   truc.sh
 1108  gedit cartetempe1.R
 1109  history 
 1110  history > histoire
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In line 1104 (resp.1105), I had to associate *.r (resp *.R) with its syntax highlightener:
Affichage -> Mode de coloration->Scripts-> R
then at line 1108 the syntax was automagically colored (with R syntax) and , trust me, *r are recognised, too.
Line 1107 was used to verify there was no terrible mess with bash scripts.... Bash scripts remained highlighted with *bash* syntax...
The same phenomenon occured with c files, which kept their syntax coloring...
 
gedit (2.16.0) could edit plain files without trying to syntax highlight!!!
Though gedit is not my favorite editor (vim and emacs are less ressource/RAM greedy) I was curious to test it,too...


--- En date de : Mer 19.5.10, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> De: Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com>
> Objet: Re: [R-sig-Debian] gedit with .r and .R
> À: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
> Date: Mercredi 19 mai 2010, 1h56
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:10 AM,
> Matthieu Stigler
> <matthieu.stigler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to recomment Gnome's editor: GEdit.
> It has some really nice
> >> Plugins, for LaTeX, Python etc. It also has Rgedit
> among other goodies. Go
> >> and check: http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins
> >>
> >> Good luck! And: Hello to Debian! :-)
> >>
> >> PM
> >>
> 
> I'm convinced Emacs with ESS is the only realistic option
> for me, but
> I was curious about the posts here about gedit.
> 
> I downloaded the plugin and installed  it in gedit.
> I'm able to send
> lines from the text file to the R session, no
> problem.  But I don't
> get any color coding of the input file, which is  a
> downer.
> 
> Worst of all, now every single file I open with gedit is
> treated as an
> R file, and so a the gedit R terminal pops up when I open
> shell
> scripts and such.
> 
> In conclusion, yes, I did, and no, just use Emacs with
> ESS.  That's
> what the cool guys use. Like me :)
> 
> >--
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
> University of Kansas
> 
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