[R-gui] Re: Highligthing for NEdit

[Ernesto Jardim]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:08, Mark Myatt wrote:
> Ernesto wrote:
> 
> > I've just put together a new R syntax highlighting file for Nedit 5.3.
> > 
> > I've borrow the "base" functions of Jedit (thanks to Tobias Elze and Zed
> > A. Shaw) so now NEdit highlights a little more than before :)
> > 
> > You can download the file here: 
> > 
> > http://ernesto.freezope.org/cmf/starthere/r/R-5.3.pats
> > 
> > Just import it into NEdit with 
> > 
> >>nedit -import R-5.3.pats
> > 
> > and save your preferences when leaving the editor.
> > 
> > If you want to use NEdit as your default editor inside R do
> > 
> >>options(editor="nedit -lm R")
> > 
> > I usually change NEdit fonts to lucida-mono 12 so if you use other fonts
> > it may look uglier (or pretier) ...
> > 
> > Hope you enjoy it and, as usual, all comments are welcome.
> 
> A really nice job. Thanks. Just one comment ... I prefer not to have 
> line-wrapping on when writing code. That requires a simple change to the 
> file on the nedit.languagesModes line to:
> 
> 	nedit.languagesModes:	R:.r .R .q::Auto:None:::\n\
> 
> Just my preference.
> 
> Mark

Hi Mark,

Users can allways adjust the language to their needs. Anyway I've changed some NEdit settings and maybe that's not the way to do it. I shall correct that on the next version.

Regards and thanks for your opinion.

EJ