[ESS] ESS[S] freezes until job completion?

[Brahm, David]

Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:
> I edit my .r file and press the Load File icon.  The file
> is submitted to R, but xemacs is completely unresponsive
> until the job is done.

Try hitting ^G.  That should get your Emacs back without
stopping the R process.  Note, however, that I use emacs
(21.3.1), not xemacs, and I use ^C^L instead of the icon.

-- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)