[ESS] Jags C-c C-c opens an external terminal window under Windows

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Wed Feb 3 17:54:31 CET 2010


On 02/ 3/10 10:48 AM, Vitalie S. wrote:
>
>> You may need to set shell-multiple-shells to nil or somesuch (this is
>> NOT an ESS feature).
>>
>>      
> Well, the problem was that terminal was opening outside emacs. It was
> because ess-bugs-batch-pre-comand was set to "start". Now, after I've
> blanked it, jags runs in shell.
>
> I was expecting to be able to use jags process interactively, i.e. send
> commands from .jmd files directly to jags running in shell. That wouldn't
> be a big deal to implement but the problem is that I cannot run jags
> interactively from within emacs (neither in dos nor emacs shells).>jags
> starts the program but at jags . prompt nothing could be executed. :(
> Is this  a windows problem again?
>
>    
I don't think I have ever used jags interactively.  This may be a jags 
problem, I don't know.
>>> also commands like
>>> system rm -f seeds.ind
>>> system ln -s seedsindex.txt seeds.ind
>>>
>>> give the error messages:
>>> 'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>>> operable program or batch file.
>>> 'ln' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>>> operable program or batch file.
>>>
>>> OS is Windows Xp, ESS 5.5 and emacs 23.1
>>>
>>> Thanks a ton.
>>> Vitalie.
>>>        
>> Wildass guess.  Windows does not have the command rm/ln by default.
>>
>>      
> rm and ln work in in eshell though, and probably are available in GnuWin32.
>
> Thanks,
> Vitalie.
>    
>
Their presence in eshell probably doesn't help you since system assumes 
that there
is a Bourne shell.  You can get that with Cygwin.

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Rodney Sparapani       Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
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