[ESS] Freezing upon pasting into XEmacs running R

[Stephen Weigand]

> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:54:07 -0600
> From: Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>

> >I'm running XEmacs 21.4 (patch 16), ESS version 5.2.7,
> >and R 2.2.1 on SPARC Solaris 2.9.
> >
> >When I start an R session within XEmacs, and then
> >paste a multi-line expression as simple as
> >
> >a <- function(x, y)
> >  return(x + y)
> >  
> >into the R session, the XEmacs screen freezes
> >and doesn't evaluate the expression.

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> Hi Stephen:
> 
> The version of xemacs that you are using has been withdrawn.
> The bugginess is somewhat similar to what you describe; see
> http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/stable/README-21.4.16
> 
> Does the problem also exist with the latest stable version 
> of xemacs? How about with the latest stable version of ESS?
> 
> Rodney

Thank you for this information! Looks like updating the
installation is the obvious next step. 

Stephen