[ESS-bugs] Inital hesitation

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
  >> on Sat, 2 Jun 2012 12:48:11 -0500 wrote:

  > If you are in an .R file you can type "print(attribute(A))" without hesitation.
  > But, when you launch R, the first time that you type that, there is a delay in
  > echoing the key presses, i.e. you just see "print("
  > even though you have typed the whole line.  This is with 12.04-3
  > r4784.  It's not a bug per se, but it is annoying for touch typists
  > like myself who find it distracting not seeing what you are typing.

It's caching of arguments, happening once per session.

  > Any ideas how we/I can fix that?

Only to store data for generics with huge number of methods - print,
plot and may be a couple more. I have this in my todo list, but didn't
have time to get down to it yet. It's clearly a priority.

Vitalie.