ess-mode 5.2.0; void-variable comint-last-input-end

[john.gavin at ubs.com]

Hi Rodney,

> So, you can either 
> upgrade to a more recent version of xemacs and comint or just 
> try this in 
> init.el prior to loading ESS:
> (setq comint-last-input-end nil)

I tried the latter without success.

But as I mentioned in an earlier email to the mailing list,
not specifying the mode of the scratch window as r-mode
fixed my problem and I can live with that solution.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

John.

John Gavin <john.gavin at ubs.com>,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodney Sparapani [mailto:rsparapa at post.its.mcw.edu]
> Sent: 27 May 2004 15:15
> To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Cc: Gavin, John
> Subject: Re: ess-mode 5.2.0; void-variable comint-last-input-end
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am trying to upgrade to ESS 5.2.0 (from 5.1.24) 
> >http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.ess.general/112
> >but when I start XEmacs and 
> >each time I send a line to the R process I get the error
> >
> >(error/warning) Error in process filter: (void-variable
> >comint-last-input-end)
> >
> ...
> >Package: ess-mode 5.2.0
> >I am on Windows XP, running R 1.9.0 (patched).
> >Emacs  : XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp (Windows)" 
> >[Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Mon Dec 17 2001 on TSUNAMI
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >John.
> 
> John:
> 
> comint-last-input-end is an undocumented variable that is 
> part of comint.  
> Apparently, it is related to some new functionality that we 
> have been working on 
> for 5.2.0.  A more robust implementation should be released 
> shortly as 5.2.1.  
> But, that is unlikely to be of help to you for this problem.  
> So, you can either 
> upgrade to a more recent version of xemacs and comint or just 
> try this in 
> init.el prior to loading ESS:
> (setq comint-last-input-end nil)
> 
> Rodney Sparapani              Medical College of Wisconsin
> Sr. Biostatistician           Patient Care & Outcomes Research
> rsparapa at mcw.edu              http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
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> 
> 

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