Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-21 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On 1/20/07, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 11:20 +0100, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: On 1/20/07, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xft anti-aliasing is incorporated into the version 23 unicode trunk. So it looks great on a hi-res LCD panel. Without xft,

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-20 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On 1/20/07, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Humm, call me silly, but most of the time I do not

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 11:20 +0100, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: On 1/20/07, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Friday 19 January 2007 03:30, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Like kile for LaTeX, Linux/KDE's kate editor is an excellent editor for R, with easy code submission to a running R process. Syntax highlighting is good. I have not been able to figure out two things: - how to automatically

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 03:30, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Like kile for LaTeX, Linux/KDE's kate editor is an excellent editor for R, with easy code submission to a running R process. Syntax highlighting is good. I have not been able to figure out two things: -

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Friday 19 January 2007 14:12, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 03:30, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Like kile for LaTeX, Linux/KDE's kate editor is an excellent editor for R, with easy code submission to a running R process. Syntax highlighting

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 07:12 -0600, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: snip Scrolling of the R output window is a little more logical in kate than in ESS. I find myself having to type Esc-shift- often in ESS/Emacs to get to the bottom of the R output but kate puts the cursor at the bottom.

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Ramon, Frank, Great discussion. Nothing like an editor feud over morning coffee. Just kidding. On 19 January 2007 at 11:18, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: | However, I specially missed: | | a) the possibility of opening as many R processes as I want, and placing that | buffer in wherever place and

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Hi Dirk, On Friday 19 January 2007 15:39, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Ramon, Frank, Great discussion. Nothing like an editor feud over morning coffee. Just kidding. Not at the editor flame war stage yet (nobody mentioned vim :-). On 19 January 2007 at 11:18, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: |

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Ramon, Frank, Great discussion. Nothing like an editor feud over morning coffee. Just kidding. On 19 January 2007 at 11:18, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: | However, I specially missed: | | a) the possibility of opening as many R processes as I want, and placing

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:06:59PM -0600, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Thanks for the pointer to emacs-snapshot-gtk Dirk. I installed it in debian but it looked virtually identical to the emacs21 I've been using. Note that it does not replace the emacs21 binary, so you need to start it as

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
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

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:09 +0100, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: snip I had problems

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-19 Thread 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

[R] kate editor for R

2007-01-18 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Like kile for LaTeX, Linux/KDE's kate editor is an excellent editor for R, with easy code submission to a running R process. Syntax highlighting is good. I have not been able to figure out two things: - how to automatically reformat a line or region of text using good indentation rules

Re: [R] kate editor for R

2007-01-18 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:30 -0600, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Like kile for LaTeX, Linux/KDE's kate editor is an excellent editor for R, with easy code submission to a running R process. Syntax highlighting is good. I have not been able to figure out two things: - how to automatically