[ESS] back/forwardslash incompatability
Rodney Sparapani
rsparapa at mcw.edu
Fri Jul 22 18:11:09 CEST 2005
>You need to use "\\"
> ("\" is an escape code on every OS, "\\" = \ (escaping the escape).
>
>best,
>-tony
>
>
>On 7/21/05, tim downie <timbodownie2004 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've used R within ESS (on Xemacs) for several years
>>on Linux, and have now installed on windows NT.
>>
>>There seems to be a problem when sourcing a file
>>using C-c C-l in that emacs insists on using \ to
>>delimit directories, but the Rterm shell interprets
>>this as an escape eg. \test turns into [tab]est etc.
>>The error message is "cannot open file" as the wrong
>>filename is submitted.
>>
>>I've searched available documentation & help sites
>>but I can't seem to find any other mention of the
>>problem.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Tim
>>
>>
>>
Actually, this was noisily discussed (on the ess-core mailing list,
I think). I couldn't convince anybody else that it is an R bug :o)
Should be a simple work-around, although, I didn't commit it
since no one has tested it. Try the following code and let us know:
(defun ess-load-file (filename)
"Alternate version of `ess-load-file', required with S+4.
This version sends the S-Plus command
source(\"filename\")
to S. This version does not guarantee to save .Last.value
This version does not offer alternate buffers or editing capability."
(interactive (list
(or
(and (eq major-mode 'ess-mode)
(buffer-file-name))
(ess-replace-in-string (expand-file-name
(read-file-name "Load S file: " nil nil t)) "[\\]" "/"))))
(if (equal (ess-get-process-variable
ess-current-process-name 'inferior-ess-ddeclient)
(default-value 'inferior-ess-ddeclient))
(ess-load-file-original filename)
(ess-load-file-ddeclient filename))
(widen))
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