[ESS] emacs freezing on computationally intensive commands

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

If you press C-g Emacs will "unfreeze" so you can go on editing in 
another buffer. Note that the R process is still occupied, so you 
cannot use the help function while editing (you will get an 
error/warning like "Waiting for ESS(R)"). But C-g will solve most of 
your problems.

Kasper

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:18:02PM +0200, Henning Redestig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I in my R-buffer call a function that takes long time to finish my 
> Emacs freezes up until that command is finished. I thought that was 
> natural until I realized that if the first thing that the R function 
> does is outputting something to my R-buffer say: cat("Starting 
> function\n") then this causes Emacs to wake up again, being usable while 
> the R process finishes off in the background.
> 
> Is there are a way to achieve the same thing except the silly approach 
> of putting such a line in the top of all functions?
> 
> I use Emacs 21.3.1, ESS 5.2.5, R-2.0.1 on Fedora
> 
> Cheers for any help on this..
> 
> /Henning
> 
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Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistant
Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen