[ESS] ESS[S] freezes until job completion?

[Thomas Widland]

I have a similar problem with GNU Emacs locking up. I often run S+ in
interactive mode through ESS. Any time I run a command, Emacs locks up
completely until the commands completes. The ^G trick gets me Emacs back
and the command still completes. However, I frequently need to paste
several S+ commands at once into ESS. If I use the ^G trick, I get my
Emacs back but only the current S+ command completes, rather than the
whole sequence of commands.

These are commands that take 5-20 min. in total, for which I'd prefer to
go through ESS rather than using batch mode or something else. Wrapping
them up in a function or putting them all on the same line with
semicolons works, but both are very cumbersome. Any suggestions?

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Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:
> I edit my .r file and press the Load File icon.  The file
> is submitted to R, but xemacs is completely unresponsive
> until the job is done.

Try hitting ^G.  That should get your Emacs back without
stopping the R process.  Note, however, that I use emacs
(21.3.1), not xemacs, and I use ^C^L instead of the icon.

-- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)