[ESS] forming completions ... doesn't complete

[Dan Davison]

Dear ESS-help,

For some time, we have noticed a problem with tab-completion in an R 
process buffer (presumably many people are also aware of this):

Sometimes, when performing the first tab-completion of a session, it 
freezes with a message in the minibuffer saying "forming completions for 
package:methods". Frequently, this does not occur however. The only 
solution we have found is to kill the emacs process.

Is there a solution/workaround?

Thanks a lot,

Dan

ESS 5.2.10 (and previously with 5.2.7)
Debian sarge (and Fedora Core 4.0) linux
> version
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platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i386
os       linux-gnu
system   i386, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    1.0
year     2005
month    04
day      18
language R