1 Changes/New Features in 5.3.7:
3 @item @ESS{}: @code{ess-font-lock-mode} is a new variable (default: t)
4 which controls whether font-locking is enabled in ESS buffers.
5 @item @ESS{[R]}: for XEmacs on Windows; another tweak to find R versions
6 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: font-locking updated for ODS and SAS Bayesian Procedures;
7 a more consistent handling of SAS options by @code{ess-sas-submit-command-options}
8 which is buffer-local; portable snooze for MS Windows via customize-able
9 @code{ess-sleep-for} (floats welcome)
12 Changes/New Features in 5.3.6:
14 @item @ESS{}: for XEmacs, using ``gnuclient'' (without a ``-q'') works for
15 things like fix() after M-x gnuserv-start has been done.
16 @item @ESS{[R]}: M-x R-newest should now work in more situations on MS
17 Windows, e.g., when R has been installed in a non-default "ProgramFiles"
18 directory tree. In these cases, there's no need to specify the name (and
19 full path) of the R program anymore.
20 @item @ESS{[R]}: For XEmacs, startup (with new tooltip code) works again.
23 Changes/New Features in 5.3.5:
25 @item @ESS{[R]} a new defun is available, @kbd{M-x R-newest}, which will start
26 the newest version of R that it can find on your system.
27 @item @ESS{[R]} add Sven Hartenstein's ``R function arguments tips''
28 functionality, via new file @file{../lisp/essd-r-args.el}.
29 Note that this includes an ``electric "("'' behavior inside @code{R-mode}
30 which is @emph{active by default} and can be customized via
31 @code{ess-r-args-electric-paren}; i.e., use @code{(setq
32 ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)} to turn it off. Further,
33 @code{ess-r-args-show-as} allows to switch to the ``tooltip'' mode.
34 @item @ESS{}: functions @code{ess-get-pdf-viewer} and *-ps-viewer; built on new
35 customizable variables @code{ess-pdf-viewer-pref} and
36 @code{ess-ps-viewer-pref}; currently used in @code{ess-swv-PDF} and
38 @item @ESS{[R]} Improved @code{ess-swv-PDF} to run pdf viewer only if
40 @item @ESS{[R]} Improved @code{ess-swv-weave} to start R automatically if
42 @item @ESS{}: Do no longer ask @emph{which} ESS process to use if there
46 Changes/New Features in 5.3.4:
48 @item @ESS{[R]} now better work with options(error=recover); and the
49 new default of CHM help files on windows.
50 @item @ESS{[R]} some more cleanup in the ``sweave'' functions
51 @item miscellaneous fixes
54 Changes/New Features in 5.3.3:
56 @item @ESS{[S]} fix buglet (5.3.2 only) which left command prompt in
57 ``execute buffer'' and hence help files.
58 @item new customizable variable @code{ess-display-buffer-reuse-frames}
59 set to true (which changes default behavior) such that execution or
60 help *frames* are reused.
63 Changes/New Features in 5.3.2:
65 @item Classic BUGS now supported by @code{(require 'essd-bugs)} with @ESS{[BUGS]}
66 and JAGS by @code{(require 'essd-jags)} with @ESS{[JAGS]}. But, only one
67 of them can be used at a time since they don't play nice together. Also,
68 @kbd{C-c C-c} is now bound to the function @code{ess-bugs-next-action}
69 (@kbd{F12} has been retired). And finally, note that @file{essl-bug.el}
70 is deprecated and the replacement is @file{essl-bugs.el}.
71 @item @ESS{[R]} Improved some of the ``Sweave-make''
72 functions (yet scarcely documented) in @file{ess-swv.el}.
73 @item @ESS{[S]} No longer mess with .Last.value (nor in other ``languages'').
76 Changes/New Features in 5.3.1:
78 @item See the docs for 2 ways to install @ESS{} for XEmacs
80 @item by uncommenting the XEmacs part of
81 Section 1 of @file{Makeconf} and performing @code{make install}
82 @item by unpacking either
83 @file{ess-5.3.1.tgz} or @file{ess-5.3.1.zip} into
84 @file{PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages} on unix or
85 @file{PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages} on windows
87 @item @ESS{[R]}: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs
88 @item @ESS{[S]}: @kbd{ess-toggle-S-assign-key} is slightly changed; in
89 particular, the default @code{ess-assign-key} is now @kbd{C-x =}.
90 @item @ESS{[R]}: @kbd{M-x R-site-search} is a new (slightly experimental)
91 utility similar to R's @code{RSiteSearch(..)} but with the advantage of
92 using Emacs' preferred browser, see @code{browse-url-browser-function}
95 Changes/New Features in 5.3.0:
97 @item @ESS{[BUGS]}: sanely re-format statistical output, @file{.bog},
98 from scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places
99 with @kbd{M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp}.
100 @item The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
101 worked, but only for one language per session; they should now work for
102 multiple languages. (They were also broken on Windows machines.)
103 @item @ESS{[S]} long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading
104 lisp code on Windows. Particularly fixed behavior in help mode with S-plus
106 @item New variable, @code{ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name},
107 which enables using the executable name instead of the dialect name for
109 @item @ESS{[S]} @kbd{ess-execute-screen-options}
110 now also works correctly when there is more than one window *side-by-side*
111 in the same frame and runs in the correct buffer also when there is more
113 @item @iESS{[S]} new functions @code{ess-eval-paragraph-and-step} and
114 @code{ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step} are bound to keys
115 @kbd{C-c C-p} and @kbd{C-c C-c} respectively and to the menu in
116 @ESS{}-mode; also bound in the help mode (for evaluating examples).
117 @item @ESS{[S]} new function @code{ess-toggle-S-assign-key} allows to
118 assign the `` <- '' insertion to an arbitrary key.
121 Changes/New Features in 5.2.12:
123 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: @kbd{M-;} fixed, but the XEmacs function @code{comment-dwim}
124 may be broken, if so, use @kbd{M-x comment-region} and @kbd{M-x
125 uncomment-region} instead; only valid PROCs are fontified which is very
126 helpful finding syntax errors (currently supported: BASE, ETS, FSP, GRAPH,
127 IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the ``feature'' where @kbd{F}-keys take you to an
128 empty buffer when the requested destination is a file that does not exist
129 has been fixed, now the request results in a no-op.
130 Further, sas-mode now also works in simple terminals.
131 @item Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
132 @item @ESS{[R]}: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and
133 define 'baseenv' where needed.
134 @item New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
135 @file{lisp/ess-install.el}.
138 Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
140 @item ESS Info entry and @file{dir} handled more effectively for GNU Emacs users
141 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: temporary files created for batch submission of a
142 region are now named based on the current file; see @code{ess-sas-file-root}
143 for details; all @code{lag} and @code{dif} functions now fontified correctly
144 @item iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not appear to
145 work at this time; please let us know if you have any ideas.
146 @item @ESS{[S]}: Support for running other versions of Splus has been
147 added for unix. Two new variables, @code{ess-s-versions} and
148 @code{ess-s-versions-list}, are used to tell ESS what other versions of
149 Splus you would like to run.
152 Changes/New Features in 5.2.10:
154 @item @ESS{[R]}: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
155 customization was not taking effect unless customizations were loaded
156 before ESS). Its value has been changed so that it will also find R
157 executables beginning ``R-devel'' and ``R-patched''. If you wish to
158 change this variable, it must be set in your @file{.emacs} before ESS is
160 @item Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like
161 operating systems will now be able to install @ESS{} for all
162 users in either a GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package
163 configuration by editing @file{lisp/ess-site.el} and @file{Makeconf}
164 accordingly, then issuing @code{make install}
165 @item @ESS{[S]}: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
166 XEmacs for R and S-plus.
167 @c working around a bug in XEmacs
170 Changes/New Features in 5.2.9:
172 @item @ESS{[R]} for Windows: the \ directory character bug
173 with respect to ess-load-file has been eradicated.
174 @item @iESS{[SAS]}: @kbd{C-c C-r} and @kbd{C-c C-b} once again
175 work as intended and documented.
176 @item @ESS{[S]}: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more agressive.
177 @item @ESS{[S]}: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
178 @item @ESS{[R]}: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such that
179 @kbd{M-C-a} (@code{ess-beginning-of-function}) etc now work for many more
180 cases, including S4 method definitions.
181 @item @iESS{[R]}: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
182 @item @ESS{[R]}: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
183 buffers containing with the string ``no documentation''(e.g. contour)
184 were being treated as bogus.
185 @item @ESS{[R]}: In R help buffers, if @code{options("help.try.all.packages" =
186 TRUE)} then @code{?rlm} will list which packages rlm is defined in. This help
187 buffer is not bogus, but instead is now relabelled ``*help[R](rlm in
189 @item @ESS{[STA]}: add ``//'' as comment starting character to syntax-table.
192 Changes/New Features in 5.2.8:
194 @item iESS: [Tab] completes @strong{file} names ``inside string'' as in
195 earlier (<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
198 Changes/New Features in 5.2.7:
200 @item If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items,
201 the new toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
202 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and
203 your .log grows to more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just
204 the first ess-sas-log-max bytes are refreshed; this is helpful when your .sas program
205 generates lots of error messages and gets too big for emacs to display
206 @item @ESS{[R/S]}: @kbd{M-;} in R/S editing modes will now indent with
207 either one or two hashes depending on context.
208 @item @ESS{[R]}: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb')
209 are now available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
212 Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
214 @item Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
215 @item @ESS{[R]}: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
216 particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup message
217 for R-devel (unstable development version of R 2.1.0) when using
218 environment variables LANGUAGE=en@@quot LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
219 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: toggling of .log mode improved (@kbd{F10}); toggling of
220 .lst mode now also available (@kbd{C-F10}); killing all buffers associated
221 with .sas program no longer bound to @kbd{C-F10} since its a bit overzealous.
222 @item S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
223 @item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped anymore.
224 @item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): font-lock now correctly differs between R and S,
225 e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does terminate() additionally.
226 @item Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all inferior
227 modes: When \a is output ``to the the console'' at the beginning of a line,
231 Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
233 @item @ESS{[R]}: @kbd{C-c C-q} or @samp{Quit S} from the menu now should work
234 (again and less klunkily) and do not append @samp{-exited} to the
235 buffer name. Further, the behavior of @code{(ess-cleanup)}, called from
236 ess-quit, now depends on the new customizable variable
237 @code{ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p} which defaults to @code{nil}.
238 Consequently, the question @emph{``Delete all buffers associated
239 with ..?''} will not be asked anymore by default.
240 @item @ESS{[SAS]} -- ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
241 with the @code{recode} application as well which is available on many platforms
242 @item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now works!
245 Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
247 @item The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the emacs
248 TAGS facility for S functions. (The distribution also used to contain a
249 directory @file{etc/other/Tags} where a ~1990 version of @file{etags.c} was
250 distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has been deleted.)
251 @item @ESS{[SAS]} -- When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
252 platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
253 characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their display. So,
254 the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is provided for
255 convenience and is bound to @kbd{C-F11}. This function requires the
256 @code{dd} command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
257 @item ESS: Completion of object names is now always done dynamically rather
258 than allowing the option of using a pre-computed database (by
259 @code{ess-create-object-name-db}) since modern computers seem fast
260 enough for dynamic completion. (We expect few users, if any, have
261 been using the pre-computed database method.)
262 @item ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was
263 very slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been fixed.
264 Further, it was more or less broken for all versions of S-plus 6.x,
265 and has been fixed to work everywhere but with the Windows' GUI of
266 S-plus. The list of objects now shows unique names also when an
267 object appears more than once in the search path.
268 @item @ESS{[R]}: Completion of object names now also includes those
272 Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
274 @item ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default they
275 will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior from pre
276 5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in another window of the
277 current frame, set inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
278 @item New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide a
279 way to pass command line arguments to starting S and R processes.
282 Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
284 @item bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
285 @item ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list
286 if ess-info not found by info
287 @item @ESS{[R]}: If you have other versions of R on your
288 exec-path, such as "R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows,
289 ESS will find them and create appropriate functions, such as
290 @kbd{M-x R-1.8.1} or @kbd{M-x rw1081}, for calling them.
291 By default only Unix programs beginning "R-1" and
292 "R-2" and Windows programs parallel to the
293 version of R in your exec-path will be found,
294 but see ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to find other
296 @item @ESS{[R]}: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and "rw1081" on
297 Windows, are added to the
298 "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
299 @item @ESS{[S]}: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows computer,
300 such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find them and create appropriate
301 functions, such as @kbd{M-x splus61}, for calling the console version (Sqpe)
302 inside an emacs buffer. By default only
303 programs installed in the default location will be found, but see
304 ess-SHOME-versions for ways to find other versions of S-Plus.
305 @item @ESS{[S]}: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61",
307 "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
308 @item @ESS{[R]}: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to @kbd{C-c C-q}) should now quit the
309 inferior R process, when issued from either the inferior buffer, or from
313 Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
315 @item @ESS{[S]} (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support
316 with icons to evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch
317 there. This code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs
318 issues get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your Emacs
319 displays images, but can be disabled with the variable ess-use-toolbar.
320 Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for the S-plus logo.
321 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: ess-sas-graph-view (@kbd{F12}) enhanced; you can specify
322 external file viewers for each graphics file type via the alist
323 ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now handled
324 by image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by graphics
328 Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
330 @item @ESS{[BUGS]}: new info documentation! now supports interactive
331 processing thanks to @uref{mailto:Aki.Vehtari@@hut.fi, Aki Vehtari};
332 new architecture-independent unix support as well as support for BUGS v. 0.5
333 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript;
334 info documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes;
335 SAS/IML statements/functions now highlighted; files edited
336 remotely by ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing
337 SUBMIT opens a buffer on the remote host via the local variable
338 ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh";
339 changed the definition of the variable ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle
340 to boolean rather than 0/1; added the function ess-electric-run-semicolon
341 which automatically reverse indents lines containing only "run;";
342 @kbd{C-F1} creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer;
343 @kbd{C-F2} creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer;
344 @kbd{C-F9} opens a SAS DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW;
345 "inferior" aliases for SAS batch: @kbd{C-c C-r} for submit region,
346 @kbd{C-c C-b} for submit buffer, @kbd{C-c C-x} for goto .log; @kbd{C-c C-y} for goto .lst
347 @item @ESS{[S]}: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
348 pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore. To stop this
349 smart behaviour, add "(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your .emacs after
350 ess-site has been loaded;
351 ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!) now can be
352 customized successfully (for S language dialects);
353 Support for Imenu has been improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to non-nil to
354 get an "Imenu-S" item on your menubar;
355 ess-help: Now using nice underlines (instead of `nuke-* ^H_')
356 @item @ESS{[R]}: After (require 'essa-r), @kbd{M-x ess-r-var} allows to load
357 numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process;
358 @kbd{M-x ess-rdired} gives a ``directory editor'' of R objects;
359 fixed ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value bug
360 (thanks to David Brahm)
361 @item ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to
362 ESS. Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated frames by
363 setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help buffers can also open in
364 new frames; see the documentation for ess-help-own-frame for details.
365 (Thanks to Kevin Rodgers for contributing code.)
368 Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
370 @item The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
373 Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
375 @item Minor more Makefile clean up.
378 Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
380 @item Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML
381 documentation are also provided (instead of built using "make") and available
382 on the web as well; see @uref{http://ess.r-project.org/,
383 ESS web page} and @uref{http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc, StatLib}
384 @item Now that info documentation is available, the
385 README.* files are no longer supported. However, they
386 are still distributed for what it's worth.
387 @item ESS is now an XEmacs package! See
388 @uref{http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html, XEmacs Installation HOWTO}
389 for details (specifically, items 10-15).
390 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: more user-friendly enhancements for remote
391 SAS batch jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT
392 function key features now supported). Multiple shells
393 now supported so you can run SAS on different computers
394 from different buffers by setting the buffer-local variable
395 ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer names.
396 @item Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
399 Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
401 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: info documentation now available!, see
402 ESS->Help for SAS; @kbd{F12} opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing
403 either within emacs, when available, or via an external viewer;
404 more syntax highlighting keywords; more enhancements for remote
405 SAS batch jobs with Kermit; new framework for remote SAS interactive
407 @item @ESS{[S]}: info documentation now available!, see
408 ESS->Help for the S family
409 @item Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files
410 made by doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
413 Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
415 @item New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R).
416 The S program can determine the environment in which it is
417 currently running. ESS sets the option to `iESS' or `ddeESS'
418 when it starts an S language process. We recommend other specific
419 values for S language processes that ESS does not start.
420 @item New `ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
421 User may click on a word or region and then choose from the
422 menu to display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc.
423 This feature is still under development.
424 @item GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS & BUGS),
425 (some from Stephen Eglen).
426 @item XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
427 @item XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
428 @item Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
429 @item should now work even when imenu is not available (for old XEmacsen).
430 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: XEmacs-Imenu fix; @kbd{C-TAB} is globalized along with your
431 function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify your SAS
432 library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for ess-sas-data-view
433 with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
434 also the dataset name is defaulted to the nearest permanent dataset
435 to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent datasets, please
436 ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default with more
437 improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
438 comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with @kbd{F10} which will font-lock
439 your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas files accessed
440 with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is experimental) by setting
441 ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh; ess-sas-submit-command and
442 ess-sas-submit-command-options are buffer-local so you can have
443 local file variable sections at the end of your .sas files to
444 request different executables or specify special options and the
445 local file variables are re-read at submit instead of only at file
446 open so that if you make a change it is picked up immediately;
447 @item @ESS{[BUGS]}: font-lock with `in' fixed.
448 @item for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
449 @item for Rd mode: @kbd{C-c C-v} and `switch-process' in menu.
450 further, @kbd{C-c C-f} prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or surrounding a word
451 by things such as \code@{.@}, \code@{\link@{.@}@}, \emph@{.@} etc.
452 @item new functions (ess-directory-function) and (ess-narrow-to-defun)
453 ess-directory <-> default-directory logic (Jeff Mincy).
454 @item Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
457 Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
459 @item S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger (Windows))
460 @item New BUGS support through @ESS{[BUGS]} mode (Rodney Sparapani)
461 Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and .log
462 are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension collisions).
463 Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic" generation of
464 data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const N=" from your data
465 file and "monitor()/stats()" commands. Activated by pressing @kbd{F12}.
466 @item Fixes for `ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
467 @item You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS function-key
468 definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
469 @item @kbd{C-Submit} a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney Sparapani)
470 @item New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani)
471 To get the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to nil.
472 Also available in .log files via @kbd{F10}.
473 @item Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via @kbd{F9} (Rodney Sparapani)
474 You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas for it to work.
475 @item User-friendly defaults for `sas-program', `ess-sas-batch-pre-command'
476 and `ess-sas-batch-post-command' as well Customize support for these
477 and other @ESS{[SAS]} variables (Rodney Sparapani)
478 @item `ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via @kbd{F11} (Rodney Sparapani)
479 @item Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in ess-emcs.el
480 @item defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff Mincy)
481 @item Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in `README'.
484 Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
486 @item New `ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by default.
487 Inserts `ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "), unless inside string
488 and comments where plain "_" is used instead. (MM)
489 @item Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
492 Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
494 @item Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
495 @item removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
496 sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need to
497 fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini)
498 @item Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
499 @item addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide @kbd{M-x ess-add-MM-keys}
500 a way to remap "_" to `ess-S-assign', typically " <- ", but
501 customizable. (MMaechler)
504 Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
507 @item Better SAS support
510 Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
515 Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
517 @item Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney Sparapani)
518 @item Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini)
519 @item ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat (AJRossini)
522 Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
524 @item Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
525 thanks to Martin Maechler.
526 @item Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
529 Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
531 @item Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill Venables,
532 Chuck Taylor, and others.
533 @item More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
537 Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
539 @item More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to
540 @uref{mailto:brendan@@essex.ac.uk, Brendan Halpin}.
541 @item fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
542 @item README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
543 to @uref{mailto:brahm@@alum.mit.edu, David Brahm}.
544 @item Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
547 Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
549 @item More fixes to Stata mode
550 @item primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
551 @item Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
554 Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
556 @item Stata mode works
557 @item Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
560 Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
563 @item R documentation mode defaults changed
566 Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
568 @item able to use inferior iESS mode to
569 communicate directly with a running S-Plus 4.x process using the
570 Microsoft DDE protocol. We use the familiar (from Unix ESS) @kbd{C-c C-n}
571 and related key sequences to send lines from the S-mode file to the
572 inferior S process. We continue to edit S input files in @ESS{[S]} mode
573 and transcripts of previous S sessions in ESS Transcript mode. All
574 three modes know the S language, syntax, and indentation patterns and
575 provide the syntactic highlighting that eases the programming tasks.