[ESS] Buffer *ESS*?

Leon sdl.web at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 21:43:26 CET 2006


Thank you. I know this is trivial. When I first installed ess I'm
quite confused by this *ESS*.

I think it will be more reasonable to have the *ESS* buffer when user
has started an session be it R/SAS etc.

"A.J. Rossini" <blindglobe at gmail.com> writes:

> It's our debugging/logging buffer.  If things break, we might ask for
> it, then you send it, and ideally, then we fix it.
>
> On 3/13/06, Leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When I have "(require 'ess-site)" in my ~/.emacs, I get an extra
>> buffer named "*ESS*" even though I have not started any ESS
>> session. The buffer has these lines:
>> ,---------------[ buffer: *ESS* ]
>> | [ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil
>> | [ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil
>> | (S): ess-s-versions-create making M-x defuns for (R):
>> | ess-r-versions-create making M-x defuns for
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I don't know what's the use of this buffer. Shouldn't it be present when
>> user has actually started a session?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Leon
>>
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-- 
Leon




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