Paul and others,

I turned off the dialog box specifically and only for the initial directory
when starting
R.  Some versions of Windows won't allow directories to be chosen with the
dialog
box, some do.  Therefore it is always off for this purpose.



> If I'm reading this right, then Windows users will no longer need this
> line in the startup file??
>
> (setq use-file-dialog nil)
>

 It won't hurt an emacs user to turn it off globally as you suggest.

> So I have to update the instructions I posted for ESS/Emacs Windows users
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ESSWindowsAdvice
>
> but, if I do, could we encourage Window users to try this? It seems to
> me we have Windows users cropping up every week saying "this bad thing
> happens" or such and it has already been taken into account on that
> Wiki.  I had the option there to turn off the directory chooser thing,
> for example.
>
It looks like your recommendations are designed to replace the
emacs-standard
key strokes with windows-standard key strokes.


> I could add more detailed comments to explain what the changes do in
> that start file. Perhaps your reluctance is caused by my preference to
> spawn new frames rather than horizontal splits.  I've not met an
> innocent Windows user who likes the horizontal splits (even though
> Emacs veterans seem to like them).
>

>On Windows 7, I notice the Emacs "addpm" program does not fiddle the
>registry to make Windows open R files in Emacs.  That's too bad.  Used
>to work.

I haven't used addpm in years.  It doesn't seem to do anything.  I normally
adjust
the file associations directly in Windows Explorer.  Sometimes I don't
bother because
I normally open files from the emacs dired, not from the Windows Explorer.

I normally download RAndFriends from rcom.univie.ac.at, rather than directly
from CRAN.
This distribution includes the full current R binaries for Windows with many
packages
and with RExcel fully configured.  RExcel, if there are Windows and ESS
users who
don't know it, provides an addin to Excel that places R, including Rcmdr,
into Excel.
This is exceedingly helpful when you are working in a Windows organization
and
teaching with an anticipation from the administration that you will teach
Excel.
Please see my book _R through Excel_ with Erich Neuwirth published by
Springer
last summer. http://www.springer.com/978-1-4419-0051-7 and translated to
Japanese
at http://www.springer.jp/978-4-431-10088-1.

Rich

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