[R] R and ViM

[Jose Quesada]

To: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>

> Indeed. Please do check the archives.

Yep. Post is there.

> Now back to the subject:  Jose, I think your main contribution
> is based on "autoHotKeys"  and that only works on Windoze, right?
> Michael explicitly mentioned he's working in Mac OS X.
>
> Martin

That's correct, autoHotKeys is a win-only solution.
Bill West's solution uses use Win32::OLE, so I guess that means it's
win-only solution.

I think  François Pinard's is the easiest since it uses vim and R only
(no 3rd application/language requireed), and that would probably work
in all platforms (not sure if the "GNU readline" inferface is
implemented in all builds of R, though).

I find autoHotKey very useful (e.g., it fires vim to fill textboxes
like this one -gmail editing window-, offering syntax highlighting
etc) so I use it all the time and don't mind. I can understand those
who don't want to install it just to communicate R and an editor. In
that case, the other two solutions are better. I'll refer to them in
my Rvim page (archives).

However, the new R.vim syntax file has 3-level coloring, and I'm
working to get improved indentation, TODO, DEBUG, etc highlighting,
and other improvements. The code templates using tSkeleton (not ready
yet) may be an added advantage. Those two things you can use even if
you don't use autohotkeys of course.

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Cheers,
-Jose

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--
Jose Quesada, PhD.

j.quesada at sussex.ac.uk				Dept. of Psychology
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~jquesada		Sussex University
Brighton, UK



--
Cheers,
-Jose
--
Jose Quesada, PhD.

j.quesada at sussex.ac.uk				Dept. of Psychology
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~jquesada		Sussex University
Brighton, UK