[ESS] Interact with ESS from R

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Sparapani, Rodney <rsparapa using mcw.edu> wrote:
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> It is trivial is it not?  If 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on was run,
> then ansi-color-for-comint-mode should be t, right?  (Just make sure
> it is set to nil prior)  To detect 'ansi-color-process-output, just
> try something like
> (memq 'ansi-color-process-output comint-output-filter-functions)

Well, I would need to check this from the embedded R process.....

>> In general, can I call Emacs lisp functions from the embedded R process?
>
> Now, you got me there ;o)

Yeah, I was afraid that this was the case.

It seems that ANSI colors work out of the box now in Emacs, so I might
just turn them on in Emacs sessions by default.

Gabor

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