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Subject: Re: [ESS] frame splitting annoyance
From: "McGehee, Robert" <Robert.McGehee () geodecapital ! com>
Date: 2007-12-19 16:08:59
Message-ID: EEBC169715EB8C438D3C9283AF0F201C17C927 () MSGBOSCLM2WIN ! DMN1 ! FMR ! COM
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Thank you, that works perfectly!
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Eglen [mailto:S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:22 AM
To: McGehee, Robert
Cc: ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [ESS] frame splitting annoyance
McGehee, Robert writes:
> ESS gurus,
> I'm a happy user of ESS 5.3.6 with R 2.6.1, though keep running into
a
> 'feature' that I want to turn off. I use more than one monitor and
> generally I write a script in a buffer in one frame and have R
running
> interactively in another frame on a second monitor.
>
> Sometimes I execute slow commands (using something like C-c, C-n) and
> continue programming in my script frame (monitor one). Well,
somewhere
> between ESS 5.3.3 and 5.3.6 an undesirable feature popped up where as
> soon as I add an open parentheses '(' while R is running something my
> script, the frame splits in half, beeps, and a message shows up at
the
> bottom of my screen: 'ESS process not ready. Finish your command
before
> trying again.'
>
> I don't mind the message or the beep, but why does my frame need to
> split while I'm coding? Can I turn this behavior off? When I'm
running
> an extremely slow command, I'd like to make use of the whole frame
> without ESS splitting it.
>
> Example that works for me:
> > emacs
> C-x 5 2 ## load a second frame
> M-x R ## start R in second frame
> M-tab ## switch focus to first frame
> > Sys.sleep(20) C-c C-n ## copy and execute a slow command into my R
> buffer.
> > abc( ## eek! frame splits upon pressing '('!
You are probably seeing the efefct of the following:
* ess-cust.el (ess-r-args-electric-paren): default changed to t;
newbies should see the new feature automatically.
so, try the following in your .emacs(and restart):
(setq ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)
Stephen
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