[ESS] emacs freezing on computationally intensive commands

[A.J. Rossini]

The problem with your approach, Kasper, is that sometimes it stops the
whole process.
I suspect it is something to do with detecting output, and we probably
could "fake" it within ESS.  We'll take a look.

best,
-tony


On 4/19/05, Kasper Daniel Hansen <k.hansen at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> 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
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-- 
best,
-tony

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