Hi, On 03 Nov 2005 12:41:53 +0100, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > We do not usually put features in R which are specific to just some > > distributions of some OSes, and in this case to one editor on those. > > We do not for example include the ESS mode for the much-more-widely-used > > Emacs family of editors. > > > > This looks as if it might be appropriate to the Linux binary packages for > > R, so I suggest you contact their maintainers. But my understanding is > > that this is an issue for gedit and not for R. Indeed .R is just a > > convention (one of many choices, including .r and .q) for R itself. > > > > I do wonder why you concentrated on .R files and not .Rd files, where I > > find syntax highlighting more useful. > > Mime-types shouldn't be distribution-specific or even editor-specific, > should they? The whole point is that they can be used for things like > email attachments that pass from one OS to the other. > > It might be useful to have the mime-type definitions for R (and Rd) > files centralized in R core, with the appropriate OS conventions > systematized. But I think we need to know more. Who keeps track of > mime-types? Can we just grab text/x-R (and text/x-Rd and > application/x-Rdata)? To which extent the XML format a standard; is it > only used by particular applications? > > As far as I know, at least in Debian, the mimetypes are tracked by shared-mime-info package. The upstream is freedesktop.org. I do not know about oficial standarts, but Gnome and KDE tries to adher to some of the freedesktop.org standarts. I can confirm that mimetypes provided by shared-mime-info are widely used in Gnome, for some time now.
Vaidotas Zemlys -- Doctorate student, http://www.mif.vu.lt/katedros/eka/katedra/zemlys.php Vilnius University ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
