[ESS] Re: ESS-help Digest, Vol 24, Issue 4

[Jean Eid]

Hi Henrik,

This is emacs or xemacs comint-dynamic-complete-filename
I guess somewhere in my setup ess is changing this behaviour. I did
however assign a global key directly to this variable and am now trying to
get it to work when you change directories.


Jean

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> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:31:02 +0100
> From: Henrik Andersson <h.andersson at nioo.knaw.nl>
> Subject: Re: [ESS] file completion anyone has it working?
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> With GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 on WinXP & ESS 5.2.5
>
> When I type
>  > source("sen
> and press ESC-TAB, I get (voila!)
>  > source("c:/home/henrika/R/modules/sensitivity.R
>
> Working I would say, but not after you issue an
> setwd(some/other/folder), but I have learned to live with that.
>
> Cheers, Henrik
>
> Sebastian Luque wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:55:45 -0500, Jean Eid <jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> >>i.e does esc-tab , or tab after quotes work for anyone??
> >
> >
> > I recently upgraded to ess 5.2.5 and noticed that object name completion
> > slowed down considerably (compared to 5.2.3, my previous version) and file
> > name completion is not working for me either on GNU Emacs 21.3.1
> > (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2004-10-16 on raven,
> > modified by Debian.
> >
> > However, I haven't delved into any new variables that can be customized.
> >
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> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:46:08 +0100
> From: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [ESS] file completion anyone has it working? - yes
> To: Sebastian Luque <sluque at mun.ca>, Jean Eid
> 	<jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca>
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
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> >>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Luque <sluque at mun.ca>
> >>>>>     on Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:16:38 -0600 writes:
>
>     Sebastian> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:55:45 -0500, Jean Eid
>     Sebastian> <jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote: [...]
>
>     JeanE> i.e does esc-tab , or tab after quotes work for anyone??
>
>
>     Sebastian> I recently upgraded to ess 5.2.5 and noticed that
>     Sebastian> object name completion slowed down considerably
>     Sebastian> (compared to 5.2.3, my previous version)
>
> for R or S-plus ?
> For S-plus, it had to be slowed to in order to work (before, it
> only *seemed* to work, but the list of object names often was
> very incomplete.
> The  milliseconds spent "sleep"ing when the completion list is
> computed for S-plus shouldn't be spent at all when using R.
>
>     Sebastian> and file name completion is not working for me
>     Sebastian> either on GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X
>     Sebastian> toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2004-10-16 on
>     Sebastian> raven, modified by Debian.
>
> can you be more specific?
>
> E.g. in a *R*  buffer, for me {with Liunx; same GNU emacs},
>
>   - object name completion works on [Tab]   whereas
>   - file   name completion works on M-[Tab] always,
>     and also works on [Tab] in obvious situtations, e.g.,
>     when trying to complete "/usr/" or "/home/"
>
> in a *.R buffer,
>
>   - [Tab]     is for indentation
>   - M-[Tab]   is for file name completion
> 	       {as in *R* --> use M-[Tab] for file names "always"}
>   - C-c [Tab] is for object name completion
>
> in the mini buffer, it depends on the context,
> [Tab] should always be used for the obvious.
> (e.g. object name completion after
> C-c C-v (help) or C-c C-d (dump object)
>
> ----------
>
> Jean also mentioned file name completion  ``after quotes''.
> Eehhm, ... I hadn't known about this at all and never made use
> of this.  So I assume this did work in older versions of ESS?
> [ Was it *documented* to work anywhere? ]
>
> Martin
>
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