[ESS] C-c C-c kills R process

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "tony" == A J Rossini <blindglobe at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:25:12 +0200 writes:

    tony> C-h v ess-version
    tony> should give you the variable value (I know, we ought to create the
    tony> function as well, soon perhaps).

    tony> Re: completion, I don't think they are linked, but you might consider
    tony> reinitializing the database (can't recall, but thought there was a
    tony> means to do that via the menu).

Indeed: 2nd line of [iESS] menu is called
	"Resynch S Completions"

[and the non-menu way is  M-x ess-resynch ]

    tony> bset,
	  ^^^^
now you have to explain what this is an acronym for  :-)

    tony> -tony

Martin

    tony> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:06:14 -0400, Jean Eid <jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
    >> [only went to me; needs to go back to ess-help. -- MM]
    >> 
    >> my apologies for not stating the info before.
    >> 
    >> I run a debian sid machine with 2.4.20 kernel. The xemacs version is 21.4
    >> (patch 15). ESS is the one that came with Xemacs (how do you see the
    >> version of ESS, I did M-x version but nothing came up). Last, as stated
    >> before R-2.0.0
    >> 
    >> In addition, I am having another problem. History completion command is
    >> giving me probms after a while. I know I am not specific but I do not know
    >> why it is doing this, maybe it is linked to the C-c C-c problem. for
    >> example loading library(lattice) and doing ?histo(space) will complete it
    >> to ?histogram in the begining of the session. However, after a while I am
    >> no longer able to do that.
    >> 
    >> Thank you,
    >> 
    >> Jean,
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Martin Maechler wrote:
    >> 
    >> > >>>>> "Jean" == Jean Eid <jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca>
    >> > >>>>>     on Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:32:16 -0400 writes:
    >> >
    >> >     Jean> Dear all,
    >> >
    >> >     Jean> I have installed R 2.0.0 and did not do anything to
    >> >     Jean> ESS (so I do not now whether this should be an ess
    >> >     Jean> question or an R question). However, I have a pretty
    >> >     Jean> annoying problem. Now C-c C-c doe not interrupt the R
    >> >     Jean> process but actually kills the whole thing so I have
    >> >     Jean> to restart with M-x R.
    >> >
    >> >     Jean> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated
    >> >
    >> > (as with R-help etc): We need to know more about your platform:
    >> > OS version , Emacs verson, ...
    >> >
    >> > but anyway: Has anyone else seen this problem?
    >> >
    >> > Martin