[ESS-bugs] ... 'edit(vignette("zoo"))' ...

[Friedrich Leisch]

>>>>> On Wed, 24 May 2006 23:26:56 +0200,
>>>>> Martin Maechler (MM) wrote:

[...]

  >>> I have found it very unfortunate that those people didn't
  >>> think a bit longer,

  FrL> Being one of those people (and the first one as author
  FrL> of edit.vignette) I must reject the subtle suggestion
  FrL> that I never thought about it.

  > Please apologize, Fritz, if I made it seem I meant you.
  > I rather meant comments people made in mailing lists and I think
  > in bioconductor courses / documents.

No worries ;-)


[...]

  FrL> edit(vignette(...)) works fine for me, the only thing
  FrL> that may be hard to find out for users is that you have
  FrL> to press C-c C-c in the R buffer to get back to the
  FrL> prompt (by default R waits for the file to be closed),
  FrL> but once you have done that you can edit the vignette
  FrL> code, send it line by line to R etc.

  > Thanks for that: This is interesting to hear. I used to use
  > the emacsclient quite a bit for a while in the past but for some
  > reasons hadn't done so anymore in recent years.
  > However, IIRC,  edit(vignette(..))  had never worked for me (*)
  > And I never started looking into it (because I typically worked
  > with the *.Rnw file anyway) till yesterday when I wrote
  > that e-mail.

  > (*) Now that I try it at home, 
  > it works fine.  So it's just at work where my Emacs setup seems
  > screwed.

  > By the way, for me (and I think by default), it's  'C-x #' and
  > not C-c C-c {which would be much easier for "users" I think}
  > that is needed to leave the emacsclient "server-edit" mode,
  > isn't it ?

No, C-x # closes the buffer containing the file I just opened (at
least for me), but I want to keep that buffer open -> C-cC-c IN THE
*R* BUFFER will get you back to the R prompt while you still edit the
file.

[...]

  > That sounds reasonable, and good to wish.  
  > Yes, contrary to other edit*() functions that *return*
  > something,  file.edit() really should behave  ``asynchronously''
  > to R.

OK, unfortunately the editor is called somewhere in an .Internal
function -> will have a closer look over the weekend.

.f