[ESS] Pause between startup commands

[Frede Aakmann Tøgersen]

So do I, but I hardly ever notice it.


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> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] På vegne af Henric Nilsson
> Sendt: 8. januar 2007 11:05
> Til: Martin Maechler
> Cc: ESS-help; Brahm,David
> Emne: Re: [ESS] Pause between startup commands
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Martin Maechler said the following on 2007-01-05 18:56:
> > I'm finally getting back to this :
> > 
> >>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> >>>>>>     on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:42:21 +0200 writes:
> > 
> >>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> >>>>>>     on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:44:25 +0200 writes:
> > 
> >>>>>> "DavidB" == Brahm, David <David.Brahm at geodecapital.com>
> >>>>>>     on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:53:07 -0400 writes:
> > 
> >     DavidB> When I start up ESS 5.3.1, I get:
> >     >>>> if(!exists("baseenv", mode="function")) baseenv <-
> >     >>>> function() NULL
> >     DavidB> options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient')
> >     >>>> >
> > 
> >     DavidB> A little ugly, as the two commands run together.
> > 
> >     MM> well, yes,...  {we never felt a need to consider a
> >     MM> patch, now that you bring it up with a patch proposal
> >     MM> makes it a different story}
> > 
> >     MM>   [..........]
> > 
> >     MM> and many such cases of lines sent too fast and "> > ..."
> >     MM> are known to happen in similar cases.  I think the
> >     MM> reason is that emacs has become too fast :-) The crucial
> >     MM> function is (ess-eval-linewise .)  defined in
> >     MM> lisp/ess-inf.el and there I think it's (line 1009):
> > 
> >   [...trying something in ess-eval-linewise that does NOT work ...]
> > 
> >     MM> Rather it's the part in ( ess-eval-linewise ) that says
> >     MM> "... Terrible kludge ..."  and later ;; A kludge to
> >     MM> prevent the delay between insert and process output ;;
> >     MM> affecting the display.  A case for a
> >     MM> comint-send-input-hook?
> > 
> >     MM> that probably could be tweaked.  But I don't have the
> >     MM> time to try getting into this at the moment.
> > 
> > I have a pretty nice solution --- without any (sleep-for 
> ..) uglyness 
> > but only for non-Windows {more specifically for the
> > case when   microsoft-p  is not true, i.e. when the DDE client
> > is *not* used}.
> > Since (if microsoft-p ...), the function 
> (ess-eval-linewise-ddeclient 
> > ..) is used and that does not allow the explicit fix that 
> I've added 
> > for the non-DDE case.
> > 
> > Since I can't test that case at all, I'm asking for some 
> user feedback 
> > of Windows ESS users now:
> > 
> > Do you see "lines running together" in the initial startup, notably
> >      if(!exists("baseenv", mode="function")) baseenv <- function() 
> > NULL and
> >      options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient')
> > 
> > not nicely ending in the *R* buffer as "
> >> if(!exists("baseenv", mode="function")) baseenv <- function() NULL 
> >> options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient')
> > "
> 
> On my Windows machine, I see the "lines running together" at start-up.
> 
> 
> Thanks for looking into the issue,
> Henric
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > If you do see that problem on windows, I think we need a 
> "(sleep-for 
> > ..)" solution there and I have implemented it already more or less, 
> > but don't want to put it - and all related bits 
> {customization of the 
> > timeout length, e.g.} into the code, unless there's a need.
> > 
> > Martin Maechler,
> > ETH Zurich
> > 
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