[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > On 03 Nov 2005 12:41:53 +0100, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr= > ote: > > [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-use= > d > > > Emacs family of editors. > > > > > > This looks as if it might be appropriate to the Linux binary packages f= > or > > > 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.
One further thought about this: On SUSE, rpm -qif /usr/share/mime/ points at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fshared_2dmime_2dinfo So I guess that the proper tree to bark at is the upstreams maintainers of http://freedesktop.org/~jrb/shared-mime-info-*.tar.gz Instructions there say to submit new XML files to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?product=shared-mime-info&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED It would likely be a good idea to send them first to R-devel for review. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
