[ESS] ESS Hangs: Text is read-only
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 08:10:58 CEST 2014
RET and clicking should work. Those are links. Any errors? Can you open
rnw or R?
Vitalie
>>> Paul Johnson on Tue, 1 Apr 2014 00:50:57 -0500 wrote:
> OK, that vignette display page is really neat. I never cease to be surprised by
> these features you put in there.
> How do I open the vignette from there? I see
> PDF RNW R
> Its embarrassing to ask, I think . There's no response if I middleclick. or
> position the cursor and hit enter or any other keystroke I can think of.
> Incidentally, if I weren't able to ask you, how would I know this from the
> instructions?
> I'm I've got a fishy build of Emacs. I'll search about...
> pj
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot reproduce either. Never happened to me. If *R* buffer becomes
> read-only, you can always C-x C-q to make it writable again.
> Do you experience the same problem with C-c C-d C-v?
> Vitalie
>>>> "Sparapani, Rodney" on Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:45:41 +0000 wrote:
SR> On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 13:42 +0000, Sparapani, Rodney wrote:
>>> Lately, it often happens that ESS hangs, and *R* minibuffer says "Text
>>> is
>>> read-only". I just found a repoducible example.
>>>
>>> Run this
>>>
>>> library(data.table)
>>> vignette("datatable-intro")
>>>
>>> An Evince screen appears., I read the PDF a while, close that.
>>>
>>> In the *R* buffer I see
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> (evince:12584): EvinceDocument-CRITICAL **: ev_document_get_n_pages:
>>> assertion 'EV_IS_DOCUMENT (document)' failed
>>>
>>> After closing the Evince window, I cannot find any way to get the
>>> Emacs/ESS
>>> session to work again. I cannot type commands at the prompt. Nor can I
>>> run
>>> them from the script window.
>>>
>>> The minibuffer reports "Text is read-only". I can't find any way to
>>> break
>>> out.
>>>
>>> I've had this problem occasionally for the last few months, but never
>>> reproducible before.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu Linux, Emacs 24.3.1 with ESS 13.09.
SR> Hi Paul:
SR> I can't reproduce. For me, on RHEL 5.7, Emacs 24.3 and ESS 13.09-2,
SR> I get an acroread window rather than evince. After closing the
SR> acroread window, everything behaves as expected. This could be
SR> an evince issue.
SR> Rodney
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