SV: ESS 5.2.1: ess-toolbar, buffer process issue

Stephen Eglen stephen at anc.ed.ac.uk
Thu Jul 1 14:35:58 CEST 2004


Frede,

Thanks a lot for investigating this problem.

 > I have seen this too (in ESS 5.2.0 after upgrading from
 > 5.1.24). Experimenting a little I noticed:
 > 
 > 1. Starting R from a non-ess-mode buffer it is not possible to
 > 1. close down R with C-c C-q.
 > 
 > 2. Starting R from a ess-mode buffer one can close down R with C-c
 > 2. C-q if you execute this from the buffer where you started
 > 2. R. Doing this in any other buffer in ess-mode associated the
 > 2. same inferior R process results in some errors such as "Current
 > 2. buffer has no process" or "Buffer **** is read-only" or
 > 2. ...... (or something like that). 
 > 
 > At one point I noticed that when executing C-c C-q the "q()" was
 > not inserted in the buffer holding the inferior R (ESS?) process
 > (usually the buffer with name *R*) but in a buffer not related
 > whatsoever to the *R* buffer.

Yes, I noticed when hitting C-c C-q from *R* that "q()" got inserted
into the *ESS* buffer.  

So, this function ess-quit needs a little work.  I've put it on the
TODO list.

Stephen




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