[ESS] Can not interrupt long printing

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

You can always move the point to the "last place" (not sure what the
technical term is) by C-c C-e (works in an comint buffer).

I set R options in my ~/.Rprofile.

Kasper

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>
>  >> on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:52 +0200 wrote:
>
>  >> If you didn't set comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output then this is reasonable. Comint will not
>  >> scroll the buffer unless you are at the end of it.
>
>  > I'll try if this changes anything and give some feedback.
>
>  > This seems to have solved the problem: The cursor is always at the end, so a Ctrl-c is accepted.
>
> Ok, I only now see the problem. So Ctrl-c works only after the process
> mark. Then, I would say that this is a bug in comint or ESS. Will
> investigate.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>  >>
>  >> I guess you know about max.print option. Set it to something small, like 1000, to avoid the
>  >> listing of big objects.
>
>  > I should actually. But I am starting R with --vanilla, so the defaults are used - is there a way
>  > in ESS that I can set options? (I am sure there is)
>
>  > Thanks,
>
>  > Rainer
>
>  >>
>  >> Vitalie.
>  >>
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>> str(x)
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>> before asking for a display of the complete object?  The str function, written by
>  >>>>>> Martin, provides a concise overview of any R object.  Other alternatives for data
>  >>>>>> frames in particular are
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>> head(x, n)  # display the first n rows, the default for n is 6
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>> and
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>> tail(x, n)
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote: Hi
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>> 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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