[ESS] help configuring auto-complete for ESS on Windows

[Vince West]

Yes thank you, with some guidance from Alex Branham I figured out that I
was missing the piece where you activate the inferior process.  Works quite
well now and thank you for the response

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Should work out of the box if you have a running R process. It also
> depends on
> what you have in your `company-backends`. ESS adds its backends in front
> of the
> list (company-R-args company-R-objects) but something might have gotten in
> front
> and might be hijacking the completion. Also check that ess-use-company is
> non-nil.
>
>  Vitalie
>
>
>
> >> On Sun, Mar 18 2018 09:05, Vince West wrote:
>
> > I've been racking my brain and googling for last 48 hours but have been
> > unable to figure this out.
>
> > RStudio has very nice auto-complete features baked in, but I can't seem
> to
> > get it working with ESS.
>
> > I am using emacs latest on Windows 10 x64, R3.4.3, installing ESS from
> > MELPA and installing company-mode from MELPA
>
> > For controlled experimentation my init.el file is pretty bare bones (see
> > below).
>
> > I open up a new R buffer and ess mode seems to initialize properly.  I
> type
> > M-x company-mode to enable company mode, but I get no autocomplete of any
> > kind.  Company-mode is working properly on elisp files.  Wondering if
> > anybody has a working example of ESS autocomplete working on Windows and
> > can tell me how to get it functioning properly.
>
> > I suppose I should also note that during the MELPA installation of ess I
> > get a messages output that is 737 lines long and is littered with
> warnings
> > about obsolete functions, obsolete variables, assignements to free
> > variables references to free variables, and functions that are not known
> to
> > be defined.
>
> > Here is my init file
>
> > -----
> > init.el
> > -----
> > (require 'package)
> > (let* ((no-ssl (and (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos))
> >                     (not (gnutls-available-p))))
> >        (proto (if no-ssl "http" "https")))
> >   (add-to-list 'package-archives (cons "melpa" (concat proto "://
> > melpa.org/packages/")) t)
> >   )
> > (package-initialize)
>
> > ;; emacs controlled settings
> > (custom-set-variables
> >  '(package-selected-packages (quote (company ess)))
> >  '(show-paren-mode t)
> >  '(tool-bar-mode nil))
> > (custom-set-faces
> >  '(default ((t (:family "Consolas" :foundry "outline" :slant normal
> :weight
> > normal :height 113 :width normal)))))
>
> > (require 'company)
>
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