[R] ESS with Xemacs? [vs. Emacs, slightly off topic]

[Jonathan Baron]

I decided to try out Xemacs instead of Emacs in Linux (RH 7.2).
After doing lots of configuration of Xemacs, I finally discovered
a major problem.  

With Emacs, when I use R, I start Emacs twice (at least), in
different viewports, once as
 emacs -f R
and once as
 emacs myfile.R

Then I try commands in the first one, and, when they work (which
isn't very often), I cut the command with C-w, switich to the
other viewport, and yank it into myfile.R with C-y.  This takes
very few keystrokes and does not require the mouse.  Then
myfile.R has something I can re-run (about 1/10 the size of
.Rhistory).

It seems that you can't do this in Xemacs.  In particular, the
kill buffer is not common to the various Xemacs processes that
are running, unlike Emacs.

I tried running the R process and myfile.R as bufffers in one
Xemacs process, and this worked OK until I also tried help.  Then
I had three buffers, and it took many many keystrokes to switch
from one to the other.

I know that some people really like Xemacs with R.  Can you give
any advice?  In the meantime I've gone back to Emacs.  Sigh.

Jon Baron
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