[ESS] eldoc doesn't work in remote sessions

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 09/27/2013 12:33 AM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>> M-x ess-remote to attach the current process to ess.
>
> Unfortunately ess-remote is broken. I cannot make it work because shell
> seems to eat some of the input that ESS loads at startup.

That sounds familiar.  There is a bug with new *shell* buffers in
GNU Emacs.  You need to impose a short nap before injecting shell
code; see (ess-sleep).

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Rodney Sparapani, PhD
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Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR)
Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, USA
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