[ESS-bugs] Why the hesitation in ess-eval-buffer-and-go?

[Stephen Eglen]

Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:

> I've been writing some R code (haven't done much since S/S+ back in the
> early 90s so I'm rifling through the "New" S language manual).  I
> really like ess-eval-buffer-and-go.  But, what is the
> hesitation all about?  Looking at the code, the key press should practically
> instantaneously submit the buffer to the R process buffer.  But, you
> have to wait 20-30s just for it to get there for a couple of lines of code.
> Any ideas?  I'm using Emacs 23.1 on OS X 10.5.  Here at work it is a
> little snappier, but that's probably due to the faster CPU that we have
> here.

hi Rodney, can you try:

;; In Emacs 22, this has become necessary:
(setq ess-eval-visibly-p nil)

and see if that speeds things up.  I think this is the bug I could never
track down...

Stephen