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

[A.J. Rossini]

I've not seen this.  I wish you could get a backtrace!

I'm assuming under R and Linux.  What version of Emacs or XEmacs?



On 10/9/05, Dan Davison <davison at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 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
>           _
> 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
>
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-tony

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