John Darrington wrote:
It's not exactly what you want, but the syntax window does a similar
thing. Most (all?) of the dialog boxes have a "Paste" button which
inserts the syntax into the window. You can then edit it as you like.
Based on one of your earlier suggestions, I have been experimenting with
the pspp-mode for emacs. I'm a little slow with it all, since I have
very little experience with emacs, but that's OK. As an old vim die-hard
. . . . I hate to admit it . . . . but I am really enjoying emacs.
(There -- I said it!). With this mode (and my newly created .emacs init
file) I finally have a linux-based editor that can do the syntax
highlighting that I want. After using this mode, and reading a bit on
the Internet, it seems logical to try and fold this work into the ESS
mode, but there may be lots of reasons for not doing this that I don't
understand yet. I'm just an emacs noob.
I haven't looked at PSPP's actual code yet, so I'm not too clear on how
it all works, but it would be interesting if the command pspp could be
given a remote option, so that it looks for a running instance of pspp /
psppire. If PSPP/PSPPIRE is already running, pspp wouldn't start a new
instance of pspp, but would instead become a client of the existing
process. From there it seems fairly trivial to extend the pspp-mode to
send syntax / files to eshell running a client pspp.
Either way, I'm having a lot of fun learning emacs and PSPP is an
incredible tool. I can't wait to see how future editions improve on the
output window (tables and graphs).
--
Andrew Choens, MSW
Research Policy Analyst
Hornby Zeller Associates, Inc.
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