[ESS] ess-developer can't find just loaded library

Ross Boylan ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Wed Apr 10 17:25:01 CEST 2013


On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 10:08 +0200, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> 
>   >> "Ross Boylan" <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu>
>   >> on Tue, 9 Apr 2013 23:45:44 -0700 (PDT) wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>  > In neither case did C-c C-t C-a recognize that silly was an available
>  > name.  Nonethless, search() showed it on the path, and I was able to
>  > execute functions from the package in the workspace after loading the
>  > library.
> 
> Developer is using .packages(T). Your report probably means that it does
> not list the attached packages. And from what I see in the docs it is
> sort of an intended behavior. 
> 
> Try C-u C-c C-t C-a for completion of only attached packages (aka
> .packages(F)). The universal argument was introduced as a workaround for
> speed issues, but looks like it will also be useful in your case.
> 
> Please see if the above works for you. If so then I will add an
> additional request to fetch the attached packages.
> 
>     Vitalie
Prefixing C-u does work.  Yay!

Why is this case any different from all the other ones in which C-c C-t
C-a does list libraries that were just attached?

Thanks for the work-around.
Ross



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