In emacs ESS, how do I correctly change the keybinding for ess-smart-S-assign?
What I tried is adding
(custom-set-variables
'(ess-smart-S-assign-key ":"))
to my .emacs
, but that made weird things happen: When I press :
, just a normal :
appears. On the other hand, pressing _
once yields <-
as usual, whereas pressing _
a second time then converts this to :
.
The desired behavior would be to be able to use _
as a normal key, with :
being converted to <-
.
I am using the official emacs 24.3 for windows and the latest development version of ESS (14.06).
Here's the docstring for ess-smart-S-assign-key
:
Documentation:
Key used by `ess-smart-S-assign'. By default bound to
underscore, but can be set to any key. If this key is customized,
you must add
(ess-toggle-S-assign nil)
(ess-toggle-S-assign nil)
after the line that sets the customization and evaluate these
lines or reboot emacs. The first call clears the default
`ess-smart-S-assign' assignment and the second line re-assigns
it to the customized setting.
So: put this in your .emacs
file to get the desired behavior:
(setq ess-smart-S-assign-key ":")
(ess-toggle-S-assign nil)
(ess-toggle-S-assign nil)
Kind of ugly, but it works.
The accepted answer didn't work for me, but the following did:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") (lambda () (interactive) (insert " <- ")))
(ess-toggle-underscore nil)
Insert your shortkey choice instead of C-;
.