[ESS] Can not interrupt long printing

[Enrico Schumann]

Hi Rainer,

you could try to jump to the end of the R buffer with C-c C-e 
(comint-show-maximum-output), and then cancel C-c C-c. (At least this 
works for me.)

Regards,
Enrico

Am 21.06.2012 14:09, schrieb Rainer M Krug:
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> Hi
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> I sometimes want to see an object / dataframe (lets call it x) in R
> and, only after issuing the command to print it(> x), that it x is a
> HUGE dataframe and it takes literally minutes to print. I am not able
> to interrupt the printing with Ctrl-c as I used to be, as the cursor
> is in the middle of the screen and not at the end of the output.
> Interrupting via the menu also does not work ("No command on this
> line"). The only thing I can do is either wait or kill R
>
> Is it possible to make sure that the cursor stays at the end of the
> output, so that I can interrupt the printing? Thanks,
>
> Rainer
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