I sometimes find that ESS locks my emacs 23.1 when R is doing long
computations. I suspect this is due to the tab completion mode in the edit
buffer. I would like to disable it (on the edit buffer only).

Thanks,

-Eduardo




On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Stephen Eglen
<S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> hi James,
>
> > Now, however when I type a part of a command or a path and hit <TAB>,
> > I get 'Wrong type argument: stringp, nil'. Trying to use the 'old
> > school' method of M-<TAB> is even worse, as I get things prepended
> > rather than completed (e.g., Swea M-<TAB> gives me  c:/Documents and
> > Settings/Jim/My Documents/Analyses/Kaufman/Rutkowski/First set
> > 6-9-08/Swea).
>
> I'm not sure I can help directly if it is a windows issue, but sending a
> backtrace may help others see why that "wrong type argument" is being
> generated.  See following from the ess info :
>
>
>
> File: ess.info, Node: Reporting Bugs, Next: Mailing Lists, Prev: Bugs,
> Up: Mailing lists/bug reports
>
> 14.2 Reporting Bugs
> ===================
>
> Please send bug reports, suggestions etc. to
> <ESS-bugs@stat.math.ethz.ch>
>
>   The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing
>
>   `M-x ess-submit-bug-report'
>
>   This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your
> installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug.
>
>   If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
> Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET".  Then run the
> command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
> containing debug information; send us that buffer.
>
>   Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash
> donations are also more than welcome.
>
>
> Stephen
>
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