running R under ESS inside emacs 21 prerelease

[Stephen Eglen]

 > 
 >     FM> Dear People, This is likely not news to anyone, but I'm
 >     FM> running Debian with a prerelase version of emacs 21
 >     FM> (21.0.104.2), ESS version (5.1.18-0), R (1.3.0-1) and doing
 >     FM> M-x-R locks it up solid. I've never seen any version of emacs
 >     FM> do this, ever. I guess that is why they call it a prerelease.


Hi, I'm running Ess 5.1.18 with the 21.0.104 release of Emacs (redhat
6.1 though).  I had problems with earlier pre-releases on compaq Alpha
due to the change in comint code - I would eventually get a timout
error after trying M-x R.  Try the followign code in your .emacs to
see if it helps:

(if (string-match "GNU Emacs 21" (emacs-version))
    (add-hook 'inferior-ess-mode-hook 'my-inf-ess-hook))
 
(defun my-inf-ess-hook ()
  "Use regexps rather than field boundarys for movement in inferior buffers.
Only needed for GNU Emacs 21."
  (set (make-local-variable 'comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields) t))

look at  the doc for that comint- variable for more information.

Cheers, Stephen
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