[ESS] history button in ESS

[Stephen Eglen]

Mark Leeds writes:

 > I have been ablr to make an R session inside emacs and run commands
 > from the > prompt etc. It works nicely but I can't figure out how
 > to be able to bring back old commands from this prompt.
 >  
 > When I hit the up Arrow key ( like I would in S+/linux ), the
 > cursor literally goes up which I guess is what should be done in an
 > editor but but not what I want.

Try M-p (the meta key and p at the same time, or press Escape and then
p). M-p / M-n will move you through the history, and will do the same
thing e.g. in M-x shell 

Stephen