[ESS] auto-complete working in inferior-ess-mode but not ess-mode?

[Vinh Nguyen]

This is now resolved.  I installed the latest version of popup.el and
auto-complete.  Set up includes:

;; auto-complete
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/popup-el/")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/auto-complete/")
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(ac-config-default)


(setq ess-use-auto-complete t)

Thanks.

-- Vinh


On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using the bleeding edge version of ESS on Emacs 24.5.1
> in Windows 7.  I have the following in my init file to enable
> auto-complete:
>
> (setq ess-use-auto-complete t)
>
> In an iESS buffer (iESS [R]), auto-complete works (type "plot." in the
> prompt and a list of possibilities is displayed).  I also see a
> drop-down menu named "Complete".
>
> However, within an R file (ess-mode; ESS[S]), auto-complete doesn't
> work (eg, when I type "plot." like before).  I don't see the
> "Complete" drop-down menu either.  When I run the function
> (auto-complete-mode), the mode gets disabled, meaning that it was
> enabled before.
>
> Any thoughts on what's going on and how I could fix this?  Thank you.
>
> -- Vinh