On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 17:09, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I experimented putting
> > (setq   ess-ask-about-transfile t)
> > in my .emacs   file. Then, when starting a new R process in emacs and
> > giving a transcript file name, R starts in a READONLY buffer, so I can
> give
> > no commands!
> >
> > That can't be the intention???
>
> Ican confirm this behaviour, and a quick glance at the code didn't
> reveal any obvious reason why this would be the case.  But as I don't
> use transcripts, I'm not sure if there is a good reason for this.
>
> For now, the workaround is that once R has started, you can do
>
> C-x C-q
>
> to toggle the read-only status and then use R.
>
> Stephen
>

Thanks! I tried to do this, but then I got the error "no process in buffer"
(or similar).

Kjetil



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