I think that if you put these commands into your .emacs file then it should act as you wish ... (setq comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-input t) (setq comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output t) (setq comint-move-point-for-output t) (setq comint-scroll-show-maximum-output t) Cheers Andrew On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Marianne Promberger < marianne.promberger@kcl.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear ESS list, > > I often work with R/Emacs by splitting the Emacs window, and one > window showing a buffer containing R commands, the other the R > process. > > In the window showing the command file, I step through the R commands > paragraph-wise using C-c C-c, sending them to the R process. > > As these commands are evaluated, they show up in the R process buffer/ > window, but the contents of that window do not scroll along with the > new content. This means I no longer see the last lines of the R > process buffer. > > I would like the R process window to keep moving text up as I send > commands to it from the other window, so that I always see the last > line. (The main advantage being that I would see errors when they > occur. I usually use this system to find where an error occurs if > C-c C-l of the file containing R commands tells me there is an error.) > > Possible? > > Thanks, > > Marianne > > -- > Marianne Promberger PhD > King's College London > London SE1 9RT > GnuPG/PGP public key ID 80AD9916 > .tex .bib .R .Rnw files welcome > Times for meetings: http://promberger.info/plan > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > -- Andrew Robinson Program Manager, ACERA Senior Lecturer in Applied Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-6410 Department of Mathematics and Statistics Fax: +61-3-8344 4599 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Email: a.robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au Website: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au FAwR: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr/FAwR/ SPuR: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/spuRs/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]