[ESS] edit code while running R

[Rainer M Krug]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM, David Carslaw
<D.C.Carslaw at its.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear ESS,
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> Simple question for an Emacs/ESS rookie - Is it possible to edit code
> while running some R code that takes a long time to run?  If I send some

Yes - C-g is returning "control" to the keyboard

Rainer

> code to R (a region, C-c C-r) it runs OK but does not allow me to use
> Emacs for anything else until the code has executed.  Is this expected?
> I don't get control back to Emacs until the execution is completed.
> Also, while the code is running, it seems impossible to interrupt it in
> any way control using C-c C-c, C-g etc.
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> Any advice you can provide would be appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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> David Carslaw
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> [Windows XP, Emacs 5.3.11]
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