Re: Emacs 26.3 strange ESS init error regarding Projectile and project root.

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com> writes:

> Unfortunately, reinstalling ESS did not solve the problem. I even tried
> uninstalling
> and reinstalling emacs itself to no avail. I don't know when this problem
> occurred
> or why but the combination of ESS and emacs-26.3 simply does not work. For
> some reason, the ESS package still gives me this error:
>
> "project-root is already defined as something else than a generic function"

Have you reported this issue to the ESS developers? From what I see they
appear do be doing something wrong, as project-root is a generic
function defined in the core, and they are apparently trying to
use the same symbol for a regular function.

-- 
	Philip K.