submitting a region hangs emacs

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

A.J. Rossini wrote:
> Sundar Dorai-Raj <sundar.dorai-raj at pdf.com> writes:
> 
> 
> 
>>   I'm using emacs-21.2.1 with ESS 5.1.24 on Windows 2000 and S-PLUS 6.1.
>>
>>When I submit a region in which single commands are broken up across
>>several lines emacs (or S-PLUS?) hangs.
>>
>>For example:
>>I'll highlight the following code:
>>
>>dframe <- data.frame(x=1:10,y=rnorm(10))
>>dframe <- data.frame(x=1:10,
>>                      y=rnorm(10))
>>
>>and hit C-c C-r to submit the region.
>>
>> > dframe <- data.frame(x=1:10,y=rnorm(10))
>> > dframe <- data.frame(x=1:10,
>>+
>>+ Interrupt
>>
>> >
>>
>>This also hangs if I copy and paste the latter command directly to the
> 
> 
> Not an issue for XEmacs and R under Linux.  
> 
> I don't have access to an identical copy of your platform to debug (no
> Emacs, no S-PLUS under Microsoft) -- could you try XEmacs under
> Windows with ESS 5.1.24?   
> 
> Can someone else verify the behavior?
> 

Hangs with R too. I tried this on X-emacs using a colleague's computer. 
It did not hang.

> Can you do a buffer-load instead of a region-load ? 
> 

Hangs.

> Can you try load-source (i.e. C-c C-l, I think?)
> 

Doesn't hang.

Perhaps I should trash emacs and move on to Xemacs?

Thanks,

Sundar