[R-SIG-Mac] emacs to edit .R files: hash (#)

[A.J. Rossini]

You probably want it to do "##", which is "indent to current indentation"

("#" is "indent to the right side")
("###" is "indent flush left")

But maybe you don't.

best,-
tony


On 7/26/05, Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I suspect this only tangentially related to R-mac, but those that are
> using emacs to write/edit R code could find the following useful.
> 
> If you are using a UK keyboard layout and have remapped the standard
> emacs keybindings so you can use the standard OSX ones to manipulate
> text you are likely to have lost the <alt>  <3> key sequence to
> produce the comment symbol #.
> 
> To remap it to F5 I used the following lisp:
> 
> (global-set-key [f5] '(lambda() (interactive) (insert-string "#")))
> 
> in my .emacs file, and now I can carry on using emacs to tinker with
> my R source code.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Federico Calboli
> 
> --
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-- 
best,
-tony

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