[ESS] emacs hanging with ess

[Vitalie Spinu]

>>>> Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com>
>>>> on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:41:26 -0600 wrote:

  >> "Now" means when? In terms of ESS and Emacs versions. And also would be
  >> good if you can share the troublesome function.
  >> 
  > "Now" means now, today. I have an (almost) updated debian wheezy amd64
  > system
  > ("almost" because apt-get, synaptic started to malfunction a week ago, so I
  > lack last weeks updates)
  > R-2.14.1, emacs 23.3.1, ess 5.14 (all installed by synaptic)

Well, that means a pretty outdated ess. Use the latest SVN or Git
snapshot and it should be fine. Or, just wait for the next release,
which should, in principle, be coming pretty soon.

Also, (setq ess-eval-visibly-p nil) might help, if you haven't set it
so far.

Best, 
Vitalie.