[ESS] XEmacs, ESS on Cygwin and R on Windows XP: inferrior-ess-prompt problem

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Tue Jun 7 18:30:07 CEST 2011


Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> ESS bandwagon, but I have another concern.  There is a killer
> feature that XEmacs users will howl loudly for.  And, I can't
> seem to figure out how to create it in Emacs.  On XEmacs,
> if you have several .R or .SAS files open, then as you view
> one of them:  you see tabs for the others.  Picking a tab
> switches you into the other buffer.  This is incredibly
> smart and convenient.  Without it, I am starting to dislike
> working with Emacs.
> 
> Rodney

Ah, brilliant!  I see that there is tabbar mode, which is sadly
not included with Emacs (nor even mentioned in the docs; so much
for the self-documenting editor).  Check it out at

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabBarMode



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