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Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
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@item Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
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@item ESS[R]: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
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particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup message
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for R-devel (unstable development version of R 2.1.0) when using
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environment variables LANGUAGE=en@@quot LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
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@item ESS[SAS]: toggling of .log mode improved (@kbd{F10}); toggling of
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.lst mode now also available (@kbd{C-F10}); killing all buffers associated
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with .sas program no longer bound to @kbd{C-F10} since its a bit overzealous;
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EXPERIMENTAL new feature: if your .log grows to more than 2.5MB, just
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the first 2.5MB are refreshed; this is helpful when your .sas program
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generates lots of error messages and gets too big for emacs to display;
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the truncation size is controlled by the variable ess-sas-log-max and
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@item S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
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@item ESS[S] (incl.@: R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped anymore.
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@item ESS[S] (incl.@: R): font-lock now correctly differs between R and S,
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e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does terminate() additionally.
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@item Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all inferior
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modes: When \a is output ``to the the console'' at the beginning of a line,
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
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@item ESS[R]: @kbd{C-c C-q} or @samp{Quit S} from the menu now should work
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(again and less klunkily) and do not append @samp{-exited} to the
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buffer name. Further, the behavior of @code{(ess-cleanup)}, called from
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ess-quit, now depends on the new customizable variable
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@code{ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p} which defaults to @code{nil}.
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Consequently, the question @emph{``Delete all buffers associated
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with ..?''} will not be asked anymore by default.
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@item ESS[SAS] -- ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
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with the @code{recode} application as well which is available on many platforms
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@item ESS[S] (incl.@: R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now works!
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
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@item The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the emacs
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TAGS facility for S functions. (The distribution also used to contain a
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directory @file{etc/other/Tags} where a ~1990 version of @file{etags.c} was
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distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has been deleted.)
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@item ESS[SAS] -- When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
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platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
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characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their display. So,
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the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is provided for
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convenience and is bound to @kbd{C-F11}. This function requires the
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@code{dd} command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
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@item ESS: Completion of object names is now always done dynamically rather
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than allowing the option of using a pre-computed database (by
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@code{ess-create-object-name-db}) since modern computers seem fast
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enough for dynamic completion. (We expect few users, if any, have
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been using the pre-computed database method.)
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@item ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was
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very slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been fixed.
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Further, it was more or less broken for all versions of S-plus 6.x,
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and has been fixed to work everywhere but with the Windows' GUI of
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S-plus. The list of objects now shows unique names also when an
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object appears more than once in the search path.
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@item ESS[R]: Completion of object names now also includes those
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
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@item ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default they
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will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior from pre
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5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in another window of the
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current frame, set inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
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@item New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide a
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way to pass command line arguments to starting S and R processes.
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
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@item bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
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@item ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list
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if ess-info not found by info
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@item ESS[R]: If you have other versions of R on your
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exec-path, such as "R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows,
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ESS will find them and create appropriate functions, such as M-x
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R-1.8.1 or M-x rw1081, for calling them.
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By default only Unix programs beginning "R-1" and
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"R-2" and Windows programs parallel to the
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version of R in your exec-path will be found,
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but see ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to find other
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@item ESS[R]: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and "rw1081" on
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Windows, are added to the
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"ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
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@item ESS[S]: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows computer,
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such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find them and create appropriate
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functions, such as M-x splus61, for calling the console version (Sqpe)
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inside an emacs buffer. By default only
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programs installed in the default location will be found, but see
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ess-SHOME-versions for ways to find other versions of S-Plus.
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@item ESS[S]: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61",
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"ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
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@item ESS[R]: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to C-c C-q) should now quit the
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inferior R process, when issued from either the inferior buffer, or from
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
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@item ESS[S] (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support
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with icons to evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch
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there. This code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs
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issues get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your Emacs
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displays images, but can be disabled with the variable ess-use-toolbar.
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Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for the S-plus logo.
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@item ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-graph-view (F12) enhanced; you can specify
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external file viewers for each graphics file type via the alist
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ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now handled
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by image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by graphics
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
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@item ESS[BUGS]: new info documentation! now supports interactive
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processing thanks to @uref{mailto:Aki.Vehtari@@hut.fi, Aki Vehtari};
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new architecture-independent unix support as well as support for BUGS v. 0.5
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@item ESS[SAS]: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript;
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info documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes;
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SAS/IML statements/functions now highlighted; files edited
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remotely by ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing
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SUBMIT opens a buffer on the remote host via the local variable
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ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh";
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changed the definition of the variable ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle
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to boolean rather than 0/1; added the function ess-electric-run-semicolon
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which automatically reverse indents lines containing only "run;";
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C-F1 creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer;
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C-F2 creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer;
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C-F9 opens a SAS DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW;
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"inferior" aliases for SAS batch: C-c C-r for submit region,
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C-c C-b for submit buffer, C-c C-x for goto .log; C-c C-y for goto .lst
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@item ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
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pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore. To stop this
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smart behaviour, add "(ess-smart-underscore nil)" to your .emacs after
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ess-site has been loaded;
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ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!) now can be
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customized successfully (for S language dialects);
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Support for Imenu has been improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to non-nil to
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get an "Imenu-S" item on your menubar;
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ess-help: Now using nice underlines (instead of `nuke-* ^H_')
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@item ESS[R]: After (require 'essa-r), M-x ess-r-var allows to load
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numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process;
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M-x ess-rdired gives a ``directory editor'' of R objects;
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fixed ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value bug
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(thanks to David Brahm)
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@item ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to
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ESS. Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated frames by
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setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help buffers can also open in
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new frames; see the documentation for ess-help-own-frame for details.
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(Thanks to Kevin Rodgers for contributing code.)
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
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@item The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
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@item Minor more Makefile clean up.
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
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@item Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML
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documentation are also provided (instead of built using "make") and available
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on the web as well; see @uref{http://ess.r-project.org/,
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ESS web page} and @uref{http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc, StatLib}
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@item Now that info documentation is available, the
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README.* files are no longer supported. However, they
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are still distributed for what it's worth.
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@item ESS is now an XEmacs package! See
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@uref{http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html, XEmacs Installation HOWTO}
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for details (specifically, items 10-15).
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@item ESS[SAS]: more user-friendly enhancements for remote
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SAS batch jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT
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function key features now supported). Multiple shells
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now supported so you can run SAS on different computers
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from different buffers by setting the buffer-local variable
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ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer names.
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@item Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
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@item ESS[SAS]: info documentation now available!, see
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ESS->Help for SAS; F12 opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing
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either within emacs, when available, or via an external viewer;
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more syntax highlighting keywords; more enhancements for remote
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SAS batch jobs with Kermit; new framework for remote SAS interactive
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@item ESS[S]: info documentation now available!, see
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ESS->Help for the S family
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@item Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files
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made by doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
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@item New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R).
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@item XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
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@item XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
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@item Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
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@item should now work even when imenu is not available (for old Xemacsen).
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@item for SAS : XEmacs-Imenu fix; C-TAB is globalized along with your
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@item should now work even when imenu is not available (for old XEmacsen).
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@item ESS[SAS]: XEmacs-Imenu fix; C-TAB is globalized along with your
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function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify your SAS
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library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for ess-sas-data-view
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with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
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also the dataset name is defaulted to the nearest permanent dataset
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to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent datasets, please
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ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default with more
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improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
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comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with F10 which will font-lock
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with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
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also the dataset name is defaulted to the nearest permanent dataset
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to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent datasets, please
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ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default with more
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improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
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comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with F10 which will font-lock
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your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas files accessed
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with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is experimental) by setting
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ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh; ess-sas-submit-command and
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with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is experimental) by setting
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ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh; ess-sas-submit-command and
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ess-sas-submit-command-options are buffer-local so you can have
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local file variable sections at the end of your .sas files to
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request different executables or specify special options and the
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local file variable sections at the end of your .sas files to
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request different executables or specify special options and the
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local file variables are re-read at submit instead of only at file
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open so that if you make a change it is picked up immediately;
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@item for BUGS: font-lock with `in' fixed.
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@item ESS[BUGS]: font-lock with `in' fixed.
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@item for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
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@item for Rd mode: C-c C-v and `switch-process' in menu.
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