[ESS] ESS[S] freezes until job completion?
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Tue Sep 26 08:36:49 CEST 2006
>>>>> "RoSp" == Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
>>>>> on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:03:42 -0500 writes:
RoSp> Thomas Widland wrote:
>> 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?
>>
RoSp> That's very weird. I can confirm this behavior on
RoSp> xemacs with the 5.3.2. Also, another thing related to
RoSp> the original post, if I do \C-c \C-l like David
RoSp> suggested, the commands are never echoed to the *R*
RoSp> buffer, nor the output! You just stare at it until a
RoSp> new > appears and all of the good stuff went to the
RoSp> big bit-bucket up in the sky. Who wants that? I must
RoSp> be missing something very fundamental here.
Hmm, what about the "ESS development version", i.e. pre-5.3.3?
Does that show the same behavior?
(and is it really different from ESS 5.3.1 ?)
Martin
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