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Hi, I've just put together a new R syntax highlighting file for Nedit 5.3. I've borrow the "base" functions of Jedit (thanks to Tobias Elze and Zed A. Shaw) so now NEdit highlights a little more than before :) You can download the file here: http://ernesto.freezope.org/cmf/starthere/r/R-5.3.pats Just import it into NEdit with > nedit -import R-5.3.pats and save your preferences when leaving the editor. If you want to use NEdit as your default editor inside R do > options(editor="nedit -lm R") I usually change NEdit fonts to lucida-mono 12 so if you use o...

I tried to install the syntax pattern file, R-5.1.pats (obtained from www.nedit.org) in version 5.3 of nedit, but it gives the following errors. Does anyone have a more up-to-date copy? euclid: ~/nedit % nedit -import R-5.1.pats NEdit: language mode must be specified in highlight pattern: <== NEdit: style name required in style specification: Note:darkRed:Italic <== NEdit: expecting

...Anyone see this or know what to do about it? I ask here in case there is some trick to getting a piece of software (that's obviously looking for one version of libstdc++) to see what's installed. According to this page (http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/docs/StartHere.html) it works with RHEL 2.1. What changed so drastically in this regard between there and here? Preston