[ESS] "asynchronous" ess-eval-*

[Vadim Ogranovich]

This is not good enough. After C-g R/ESS finishes the current command,
but will not execute any remaining commands. Say if I send two lines and
C-g during the execution of the 1st line the 1st line will complete, but
the 2nd won't start at all.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kasper Daniel Hansen [mailto:k.hansen at biostat.ku.dk] 
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:26 AM
> To: Vadim Ogranovich
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] "asynchronous" ess-eval-*
> 
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:14:02PM -0800, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
> > I sort of wish for an extension of the family of 
> ess-eval-*. Currently 
> > when I send a region for evaluation my Emacs, 21.2.1, 
> doesn't return 
> > until all lines in the region are evaluated. This is sometimes
> > inconvenient: I want to send a portion of my script for 
> evaluation and 
> > keep working on the rest.
> 
> Press C-g to make Emacs respond to your commands, while still 
> evaluating in the background.
> 
> Kasper
> 
> >  
> > My ess version is 5.2.3, but the "New Features" section in 
> the online 
> > docs doesn't seem to mention anything like this.
> >  
> > Let me also use this occasion to thank all who developed ESS. Life 
> > (well, my life at work) would be much worse w/o it.
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > Vadim
> >  
> > P.S. Please reply directly since I am not on the list.
>