R help - Apr 2004 - Underscore and ESS

This is a question that I should have sent to 'ess-help', but I
take my chances...

In 'NEWS' (1.9.0) I read the good news

    o   Underscore '_' is now allowed in syntactically valid names, and
        make.names() no longer changes underscores.  Very old code
...

but when I try it in emacs (ESS 5.1.24), my '_' are changed to '
<-  '!
What can I do? Upgrade to a beta version of ESS? (I want to continue 
using ESS!)

G??ran
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>>>>> "GB" == G??ran Brostr??m <gb at
stat.umu.se>
>>>>>     on Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:29:00 +0200 writes:
    GB> This is a question that I should have sent to 'ess-help', but
I
    GB> take my chances...

(yes, you should have..)

    GB> In 'NEWS' (1.9.0) I read the good news

    GB> o   Underscore '_' is now allowed in syntactically valid
names, and
    GB> make.names() no longer changes underscores.  Very old code
    GB> ...

    GB> but when I try it in emacs (ESS 5.1.24), my '_' are changed
to ' <-  '!
    GB> What can I do? Upgrade to a beta version of ESS? (I want to continue 
    GB> using ESS!)

o Yes, upgrading to ESS-5.2.0beta would help:
  There you type "_"   *twice* to get a single "_" inserted

o OTOH, in all versions of ESS (and Emacs), you can type
  "C-q _"  which means ``quote _ '', i.e. ``literal
'_'''

  (and this applies to all other emacs keys in all emacs modes)

Regards,
Martin