[ESS] R and Stata crosstalk

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 10:45:00 CEST 2012



This is an unfortunate misfeature of ESS. To solve that requires quite
some rewrites of ESS internals. Will be done in the next version. For
now, the easiest workaround is to start two separate emacses, one for
each language.
 

  >> Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie>
  >> on Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:00:06 +0100 wrote:

  > I have a problem with running R and Stata sessions. Any Stata session I
  > begin after starting an R session no longer has a working command recall
  > (C-up which invokes comint-previous-input). It appears that it is
  > looking for an R-style prompt, despite each buffer having the
  > appropriate buffer-local value of inferior-ess-primary-prompt.

  > Brendan



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