[ESS] buffer names

[A.J. Rossini]

No, it's much easier than that, especially if you use the R-version 
functions to initialize the interactive session.  It's just that I
don't have a copy of ESS or subversion on this computer to make the
quick changes needed.

It's extremely cheap, and we could post-hoc name the buffer as well,
but that gets a bit more complex -- again, relative to fixing most
messes in ESS, this is simple and will have almost no side-effects
(there's a list of ESS inferior (interactive) buffers that would need
to be adjusted if you did it post-hoc, but not if you did it when the
buffer is created).

On 2/1/06, Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Even if I'm the first to bring it up on the list, I'm probably not the first
> to have the idea. :)
>
> It seems like it shouldn't be a costly feature; there shouldn't be any
> serious performance hit from running a version query just once per buffer,
> and it should help more users than it confuses... Would it break anything if
> buffer names changed? Would ESS have to create a buffer, run R, get the
> version, and then rename the buffer?
>
>
> >From: "A.J. Rossini" <blindglobe at gmail.com>
> >To: Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail.com>
> >CC: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >Subject: Re: [ESS] buffer names
> >Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:25:52 +0100
> >
> >Hmm -- not without writing some code (i.e. similar to how we deal with
> >either multiple or non-multiple version data).  Then we'd have   R
> >2.2.1:1, R 2.2.1:2, etc...
> >
> >It's not a FAQ, you might be the first person I know who has requested
> >this on this mailing list.
> >
> >
> >On 2/1/06, Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > This seems like it would a FAQ, but I couldn't find an asnwer in either
> >the
> > > manual or on the mailing list: I'm running two instances of R under ESS,
> >and
> > > the buffers are helpfully named *R* and *R:2*. In addition, the two
> > > instances are different R versions (2.1.1 and 2.2.1, in my case). Is
> >there
> > > any way I can get ESS to automatically name the buffer something like *R
> > > 2.2.1* and *R 2.1.1* instead? After all, ESS knows that the R processes
> >come
> > > from different binaries...
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
> >--
> >best,
> >-tony
> >
> >blindglobe at gmail.com
> >Muttenz, Switzerland.
> >"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can
> >easily
> >roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>
>
>


--
best,
-tony

blindglobe at gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).