[ESS] "An indirect buffer cannot visit a file."

Vitalie Spinu @p|nuv|t @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Mon Mar 21 20:20:44 CET 2016


You missed one dot there. Not sure if it was intentional. That .? is for
optional R, r or whatever.

  Vitalie

>> On Mon, Mar 21 2016 13:40, Kevin Wright wrote:

> Thanks Vitalie. I confirm your suggestion.  The following line removes
> 'extra' polymode buffers in the Buffer List when using ibuffer.

> (add-to-list 'ibuffer-never-show-predicates "\\.?md\\[.*\\]")

> Kevin Wright

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> I am not using ibuffer, but I guess you can do it in one blow with
>> `\\..?md\\[.*\\]`.
>>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 21 2016 11:32, Kevin Wright wrote:
>>
>> > Incidentally, if you use ibuffer, you can remove the extra appearance of
>> > .Rd files in the Buffer List with this:
>>
>> >   (add-to-list 'ibuffer-never-show-predicates "\\.Rmd\\[r\\]")
>> >   (add-to-list 'ibuffer-never-show-predicates
>> "\\.Rmd\\[poly-head-tail\\]")
>>
>> >   (add-to-list 'ibuffer-never-show-predicates "\\.Rmd\\[fundamental\\]")
>>
>> > Kevin
>>
>> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu>
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> I see this in the examples section of .Rd files.
>> >>
>> >> The .Rd file appears in *Buffer List* twice, once as ESS[S] [none] and
>> >> once as Rd.
>> >>
>> >> A related consequence is that when I quit C-x C-c an Rd file,
>> >> while the cursor is in the examples section, the quit doesn't work and
>> also
>> >> doesn't give a warning.
>> >>
>> >> Rich
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Brian Hobbs <
>> rebdh using channing.harvard.edu>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > I noticed this peculiarity myself a few months ago. It does seem to
>> only
>> >> > occur in code chunks, so I have adapted to only saving buffers to new
>> >> names
>> >> > when in the latex or markdown sections of a document (and not in R
>> code
>> >> > chunks).
>> >> >
>> >> > Brian
>> >> >
>> >> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Stephen Eglen <sje30 using cam.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I wonder: does it happen when you are in a code chunk, but works ok
>> when
>> >> >> you are in a latex chunk?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Fri, Mar 18 2016, Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Sometimes when editing an .Rnw file, working with R, Sweave, and
>> >> >> > emacs, I want to save my current buffer under some other file name
>> >> >> > than the file it came from, and sometimes I will get this error
>> >> >> > message:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > "An indirect buffer cannot visit a file."
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I have not yet found a patter as to the conditions under which this
>> >> >> > error message pops up.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I'm having a hard time understanding indirect buffers, but I've
>> never
>> >> >> > intentionally used or created one. I don't anticipate I will ever
>> have
>> >> >> > a need to. I don't know how a particular buffer becomes an indirect
>> >> >> > buffer. Is there an indication somewhere, perhaps in the status
>> bar,
>> >> >> > that a buffer is an indirect one? And is there a way to turn an
>> >> >> > indirect buffer back into a "regular" buffer?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Thanks.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > --Chris Ryan
>> >> >> >
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