[ESS] setting transcript file name

Stephen Eglen S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk
Tue Aug 2 22:52:11 CEST 2005


 > I think I see an easier fix:
 > 
 > (if ess-ask-about-transfile
 > 	    (let ((transfilename (if (stringp ess-ask-about-transfile)
 > 				     ess-ask-about-transfile (read-file-name
 > 				  "Use transcript file (default none):"
 > 				  startdir ""))))
 > 
 > 
 > And, then in .emacs you have
 > 
 > (setq ess-ask-about-transfile (my-transcript-name))
 > (require 'ess-site)

Yes, that is another wya to go.  The problem with this way for the
original problem is that the user would have to keep changing the
value of the string ess-ask-about-transfile by hand to get the
directory name in there.

Stephen




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