starting inferior Splus process iESS[S]

[Steve McKinney]

Today I downloaded ntemacs 21.2 and ESS 5.1.24.
Improvements/additions are most excellent!
Many thanks to all the hard working developers.

Q1.
With Emacs 20.7 and ESS 5.1.16, I would get
nice fontification of Dired buffers (directories
colored blue etc.)

That did not happen with Emacs 21.2 and ESS 5.1.24.
Is there something I need to set up to get the
good old Dired fontification?

Q2.
I tried running S-PLUS out of Emacs/ESS.

First I tried M-x S while visiting an S-PLUS Chapter
in dired.

I see the following message in the *S+6* buffer:

c:/programfiles/insightful/splus61/cmd/splus.exe /MULTIPLEINSTANCES S_PRINT_COMMAND=gnuclientw.exe S_PROJ=e:/foo

Process S+6 exited abnormally with code 128 at Tue Apr 15 17:52:59 2003



Second I tried running M-x S+6-msdos  while visiting an S-PLUS Chapter
in dired.

After about 30 seconds I see a message in the *S+6* buffer.
No S-PLUS session appears, although with monitoring tools
(NT's taskmanager and "Process Explorer" from www.sysinternals.com)
I can see that an instance of S-PLUS has been invoked.
When I quit Emacs, I get a message that a subprocess is still
active and that it will be killed.  Once emacs closes,
the S-PLUS session finally opens a GUI window and appears to run
normally.

(I'm a little concerned by the message in the S+6 buffer that warns
I must q() from S-PLUS before killing emacs or risk not being
able to shutdown and having to run scandisk...)

Has anyone else encountered this behavior, and have any ideas
about how to get the emacs/ess - s-plus connection up and running?


Any info appreciated.


Steven McKinney
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Heiberger [mailto:rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:27 PM
> To: Steve McKinney; ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Rich Heiberger
> Subject: Re: starting inferior Splus process iESS[S]
> 
> 
> My first response to you got truncated.  Here is the rest.
> 
> The command M-x S is designed for the cygwin shell.  To use ESS
> with the DOS shell you need the command M-x S+6-msdos
> 
> The M-x S and M-x S+6-msdos work with the S-Plus GUI.  Input 
> lines get sent
> to the S-Plus commands window.  Output appears in the S-Plus 
> commands window.
> 
> The command M-x Sqpe works with S running inside an emacs buffer.  It
> provides a smoother interaction for text-only work and is closer in
> feel to using ESS and S-Plus on a Unix machine.  All work appears
> inside the *S+6* emacs buffer.  It doesn't provide access to the
> wingraph device.
> 
>  
> Rich
>