[ESS] submit region with ess-remote and SAS

[Rodney Sparapani]

Peng Zhang wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am trying to make ess work with ess-remote and SAS. I have read manual
> and as I understand the key bindings in Chapter 10 are for local
> installed SAS. I can use C-c i to submit a single line to SAS if I use
> remote SAS. I then try to use C-u n C-c i to submit multiple lines, but
> for some reasons it only submit a single line to the ssh buffer. Can
> somebody give me an advice how to utilize C-u n to submit multiple lines
> or what is the good way to submit a region?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peng
> 

Hi Peng:

These things are very temperamental.  As I remember it, iESS[SAS] relies 
on virtual terminals.  However, these are created on the remote host so
ESS has to talk to those terminals.  What happens sometimes, is that 
iESS tries to talk to those terminals as if they were on the local host. 
  I haven't looked at this recently, but maybe this description will be 
so lucid that some OP will be immediately lead to the solution (I doubt 
it).  I created a function, ess-sas-interactive, that seems to be good 
for debugging other non-ESS problems, but I think you can only submit 
one line at time.

Rodney