[ESS] --no-readline ?

[Vitalie Spinu]

Just to add to what Martin said. History functionality in comint mode (basis for
ESS) is much better than what you can get with readline. Look at
comint-previous-matching-input-from-input and
comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp for examples.

  Vitalie


 >>> Martin Maechler on Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:31:25 +0200 wrote:

 > ESS has its own history and editing commands and readline would only
 > interfere with that.
 > so --no-readline  is really part of the deal....

 > though it could be that --- with all the advances in Emacs since the
 > time the ESS was first used ("S-mode" in Emacs 19.xz)
 > ESS could be made working with readline.   OTOH I would not spend time for that.

 > For those of use who believe " the source is real "  the history is
 > very rarely important.  All the relevant things are in
 > *.R scripts (or nowadays *.Rnw or *.Rmd  documents).

 > Martin

 > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Christian Hoffmann
 > <christian using echoffmann.ch> wrote:
 >> In my *ESS* buffer I get
 >> 
 >> (R): version (3.2.1)
 >> ....
 >> (inf-ess 2.2): start args = --no-readline  ,
 >> inf-ess-start-args=--no-readline
 >> 
 >> ESS is 12.09
 >> 
 >> I am missing the benefits of readline, e.g. opening the history file and
 >> editing it for use.
 >> 
 >> How can the --no-readline be inactivated?
 >> 
 >> Thanks  c.
 >> 
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