Hi Rich, you did a nice job with this ess.

C-h v ess-program-files <RET>

.gives [no match]




On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu>wrote:

> Stephen,
>
> I can give you the emacs answer on how to do this, I hope xemacs is
> similar enough.
>
> C-h v ess-program-files <RET>
> this gives *Help* window that asks you to mouse-2-click on the word
> customize
> I don't know what you will find in the value field.  What you need to
> enter there is
> c:/PROGRA~2
> then save for future sessions
>
> You will probably also need to do
>  C-h v ess-program-files-64 <RET>
> and enter the value
> c:/PROGRAM~1
>  then save for future sessions
>
> I don't know why none of the three alternative names were available on
> your system.
> My understanding is that Xemacs provided the function named
> mswindows-short-file-name
> Placing the two variable values above in the customization as listed above
> should be the workaround.
>
>
> Rich
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Stephen Eick <steve.eick@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi.  I'm running Windows 7 and installed R (2.14.1)  and xemacs from
>> cygwin, taking all the defaults.  My $HOME/.xemacs/init.el has a single
>> line:
>>
>> (load "C:/Users/eick/Documents/ess/ess-5.14/lisp/ess-site.el")
>>
>>
>> I get the following error when I start xemacs:
>>
>>
>> (1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
>> /cygdrive/c/Users/eick/Documents/.xemacs/init.el:
>>
>> Symbol's function definition is void: w32-short-file-name
>>
>> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause of the error
>> in your initialization file and remove it.  Use the `-debug-init' option
>> to XEmacs to view a complete error backtrace.
>>
>> (2) (warning/warning) None of 'w32-short-file-name,
>> 'win32-short-file-name,
>> or 'mswindows-short-file-name are defined!
>> You will have to manually set   ess-program-files (in ess-custom.el) to
>> the correct "8.3"-style directory name.
>>
>>
>> Plz help.
>>
>> thanks, Steve
>>
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