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

[Brahm, David]

Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:

> if I do \C-c \C-l like David suggested, the commands are never
> echoed to the *R* buffer, nor the output!  You just stare at it
> until a new > appears and all of the good stuff went to the big
> bit-bucket up in the sky.  Who wants that?

I think that's a feature ... \C-c \C-l runs the "source()" function
on the file, rather than echoing and executing each line (\C-c \C-b).
It's generally faster and quieter, and yes, sometimes I want that :-)

Sorry I have no useful feedback on Thomas Widland's original post.

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