[ESS] file name completion under R

[Jean Eid]

Dear Stephen,

The issue with filename completion has been in the discussion for quite a
while. See
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2000-October/000247.html
Where tony Rossini has answered the question with "this one bites me
too...". That was on Oct 11 2000.
That is why I did not want to put too much emphasis on the built in ess
functions and all I wanted is to try and resync xemacs
comint-dynamic-complete-filename and get it to work that way. I will
however submit a bug as well if this helps. I will also look for the
thread you mentioned below.


Thank you

Jean

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Stephen Eglen wrote:

>
>  > I do not know whether or not this has been working under any other mode.
>  > but under R-mode this hasn't been working for me for at least couple of
>  > years on different version of xemacs, emacs  and ESS.
>  > The message I get from "tab" is
>  > "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
>
> ...
>  >
>  > I guess these two questions can be answered by just fixing ESS M-tab
>  > function.  If someonw can give me a clue why I get the above error message
>  > maybe I can try and fix it.
>
> It would help us if you try to debug the error; do the following as
> listed in the ess manual:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> Reporting Bugs
> ==============
>
>    Please send bug reports, suggestions etc. to
>
>    <ESS-bugs at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>
>    The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing
>
>    `M-x ess-submit-bug-report'
>
>    This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your
> installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug.
>
>    If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
> Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET".  Then run the
> command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
> containing debug information; send us that buffer.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  > b) everytime I setwd() in the R buffer, comint-dynamic-complete-filename
>  > is kept relative to  the original directory where xemacs was
>  > envoked rather than the new directory. Is there a way to do  this?
>
> This came up a few weeks ago; having an automated tracker of the
> current directory could be done, but it might be a bit of work.
> (e.g. M-x shell does this, but in that case, in your shell you usually
> change dirs a lot; my experience with *R* is that I rarely use setwd()
> so this feature has not been a priority for me).
>
> Warning: automated directory tracking will have to be optional;
> e.g. it may not work for iESS buffers running via M-x ess-remote
> when the local and remote machine have different file systems.
>
> Stephen
>