How do I use Stata in org-mode with spacemacs

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I have been a loyal user of emacs. Recently, I switched to using spacemacs and enjoy it very much. For a while, I was able to use Stata in org-mode in spacemacs through ESS. After a recent update, I cannot use Stata in org-mode anymore because Stata is obsolete the latest release of ESS. When I try to edit the following code block,

#+begin_src stata :tangle yes
 webuse auto;
#+end_src

I cannot open the clock block and get an error message as follows

org-edit-src-code: No such language mode: stata-mode

I am using the develop branch of spacemacs 0.300 with emacs 27.0.50. And, I output my system information using

uname -a

with the following output

Linux 4.15.0-112-generic #113~16.04.1-Ubuntu x86_64 GNU/Linux

I do not think I can use any layer other than ESS in spacemacs to solve this problem. How do I use Stata in org-mode with spacemacs?

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1 Answers

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I temporarily solve this problem by downgrading ESS to an earlier version, and it works for now. I take steps as follows.

  1. Remove the ess layer from dotspacemacs-configuration-layers of .spacemacs
  2. Add the following into dotspacemacs-additional-packages of .spacemacs (ess :location (recipe :fetcher git :url "https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS.git" :commit "14b9a3091916a1cb74dec7336e8461590dfc6a7d" :files ("lisp/.el" "contrib/lisp/.el" "doc/dir" "doc/*.texi" "etc")))
  3. Then restart spacemacs (SPC q r).

#7071 and #6575 are helpful references