[ESS] history and completion problems

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul MacManus <prm at runbox.us>
>>>>>     on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:52:50 -0400 (EDT) writes:

    Paul> Hi, Thanks for getting back to me.

    >> For #2 -- probably best to use the comint history
    >> commands.
    >> 
    >> ESC-p and ESC-M-p to cycle through history and history
    >> restricted to prefix (I'm going from memory, so the
    >> keymappings might be wrong).

    Paul> these ones work but the ! prefix commands are more
    Paul> convenient.

    Paul> For #1, I realized that my description of the problem
    Paul> is unclear. It is the completion in the minibuffer
    Paul> that does not work, i.e., the completion of the object
    Paul> name to dump. The R objects I work with have complex
    Paul> names and having to write them out is tedious and
    Paul> error prone.

If completion works for "newly created" or "newly loaded"
objects depends:

If you enter something like   library(.) or attach(.) in the *R*
buffer yourself, ESS should "re-sync" , i.e., re-compute the
list of known object names auto magically.
OTOH, if you, e.g., work in an *.R buffer and use "C-c C-n" to
send commands linewise to the *R* process, and send a library(..) command,
ESS does not recognize and does not ``auto - re -sync''.

HOWEVER,
the [iESS] menu {belonging to the *R* buffer} has as 2nd entry
  "Resynch S completions"
with which you can let it recomput the list, and then you will
able to use completion, in dump or help or ...
BTW:   M-x ess-resynch  is slightly faster than the menu if your
			finger are on the keyboard

Regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich


    >>  On 7/22/05, Paul MacManus <prm at runbox.us> wrote: > Hi,
    >> > 
    >> > I've recently started using ESS with R and have been
    >> very pleased with it. Just about everything is working
    >> but I am having trouble with a few things.
    >> > 
    >> > 1) When I use C-c C-d to dump an object into a buffer
    >> completion does not work. The manual says that TAB should
    >> do completion but for me it just does a tab space. C-c
    >> C-v has the same problem.
    >> > 
    >> > 2) The abbreviated history commands ( such as !! and
    >> !foo ) do not work.
    >> > 
    >> > I'm running ESS 2.5.8 on Windows XP Professional with
    >> version 21.3.1 of emacs. R is version 2.1.1
    >> > 
    >> > Thank you , Paul
    >> > 
    >> > ______________________________________________ >
    >> ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >
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    >> > 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> -- 
    >> best, -tony
    >> 
    >> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository
    >> from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR,
    >> 4Jan05).
    >> 
    >> A.J. Rossini blindglobe at gmail.com
    >> 

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