[ESS] ESS Hangs: Text is read-only

[Paul Johnson]

Thanks everybody for figuring this out.  I can confirm the new ESS
solves the vignette problem I was seeing.

I found the MELPA tarball has no docs folder, so when I build that
into an Ubuntu package, I have to disable the doc builder. Otherwise,
result is adequate and other Ubunutu users are free to share:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/13.10/amd64/ess/ess_20140404.1519_all.deb

I left the packaging stuff there too, in case you are picky.

Seems to work fine, only drawback is no "docs" are included in the package

No, I'm not willing to setup an apt repo for you because I think
that's tedious.  Download the deb and install it yourself.


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Mathieu Basille
<basille.web at ase-research.org> wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> See later messages in this thread: Vitalie fixed this in the most recent
> ESS-dev (which you can access from MELPA [1]), and I can confirm it's now
> working perfectly, at least on my system!
>
> Mathieu.
>
> [1] http://melpa.milkbox.net/#/ess
>
>
> Le 04/01/2014 09:51 PM, Charles Berry a écrit :
>
>> Mathieu Basille <basille.web <at> ase-research.org> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Not sure how much it helps, but I can confirm Paul's problem.
>>
>>
>> It is an ESS problem. Specifically, in ess-R-display-vignettes.
>>
>> The (nth N el2) calls are often wrong.
>> This can be seen by consulting *ess-command-output* immediately
>> after ess-R-display-vignettes is run (e.g. by typing 'v' in an ess-help
>> buffer).
>>
>> Or even just looking at *[R]vignettes* where the 'title's are given as
>> the 'topic's, etc.
>>
>>
>> The fields in order are:
>>
>> Package
>> Dir
>> Topic
>> File
>> Title
>> R
>> PDF
>>
>> I have changed these lines in ess-R-display-vignettes and after refreshing
>> the  *[R]vignettes* buffer all seems well.
>>
>>
>> 39:    (setq path (nth 1 el2))
>> 46:   'vignette (file-name-sans-extension (nth 6 el2))
>> 48:   'help-echo (concat path "/doc/" (nth 6 el2)))
>> 54:   'help-echo (concat path "/doc/" (nth 3 el2)))
>> 60:   'help-echo (concat path "/doc/" (nth 5 el2)))
>> 61:       (insert (format "\t%s\n" (nth 4 el2)))
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>> p.s. ess-version: 13.09-1 [svn: 5936 (2013-12-04)] (loaded from
>> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/ess-13.09-1/)
>>
>>
>>> version
>>
>>                 _
>> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0
>> arch           x86_64
>> os             darwin10.8.0
>> system         x86_64, darwin10.8.0
>> status
>> major          3
>> minor          0.2
>> year           2013
>> month          09
>> day            25
>> svn rev        63987
>> language       R
>> version.string R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>> nickname       Frisbee Sailing
>>
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