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[Dan Bolser]

Re: Emacs Noob seeks dream function "C-c C-c"

Dan Bolser wrote:
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> GSOH
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> The following does not work, and I can't work out why (I am very 
> inexperienced with emacs).
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> (defun ess-eval-paragraph-and-step-xxx (vis)
>  "Send the current paragraph to the inferior ESS process and move 
> forward to
> the next paragraph.  Arg has same meaning as for `ess-eval-region'."
>  (interactive "P")
>  (let ((beg-end (ess-eval-paragraph vis)))
>    (goto-char (1+ (cadr beg-end))))
>  (save-excursion
>    (ess-switch-to-end-of-ESS)
>    )
>  )
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> I am trying to get the functionality of ess-eval-paragraph-and-step 
> (C-c C-c), but combine it with the convenience of 
> ess-eval-line-and-step (C-c C-n), which also shows the 'process 
> window' at the appropriate place (the bottom). The above code leaves 
> the 'active' cursor in the 'process window' which isn't what I want.
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> I would like ess-eval-paragraph-and-step-xxx to evaluate the function 
> or paragraph AND also show the 'process window' AND move the 'cursor' 
> to the bottom of the 'process window' AND put the cursor back at the 
> end of the function or paragraph just as ess-eval-paragraph-and-step 
> does. I had limited success using an *other-window* command (I forget 
> which), but obviously that is not as good as talking directly to the 
> ESS 'process window'
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> Thanks for any help
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> Dan.
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> P.S.
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> Hmmm....
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> I got this to work (but I don't really know how)...
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> (defun ess-eval-paragraph-and-step-xxx (vis)
>  "Er..."
>  (interactive "P") ; What is this?
>  (ess-eval-paragraph-and-step vis)
>  (previous-line 1)
>  (ess-eval-line-and-step)
>  )
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> (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-c") 'ess-eval-paragraph-and-step-xxx)
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> However, that 'global-set-key' part doesn't seem to work (running the 
> function from M-x appears to work fine). Is this a dumb issue, or is 
> the binding gobbled up by ess? (I am running all this after loading 
> ess with
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> ;; Allow R command automatically
> (load "/home/xxx/emacs/ess-5.3.3/lisp/ess-site")
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