[R] further on ESS/XEmacs for Windows

[Shawn Way]

Actually this happens under emacs (21.2.1) as well as Xemacs 21.4.  I've
also seen this happening under the Rterm in version 1.6.1 for Windows.  What
I generally see is that the Rterm cannot quit and needs to be forced to
quite by some other means.


Shawn Way

-----Original Message-----
From: rossini at blindglobe.net [mailto:rossini at blindglobe.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:11 PM
To: John Fox
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] further on ESS/XEmacs for Windows


>>>>> "john" == John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> writes:


    john> (2) I spent a good part of the day today trying XEmacs and ESS on
a
    john> variety of Windows systems -- with and without my configuration
    john> files. I noticed a number of intermittent problems with
GUI-related
    john> commands, such as attempts to open dialog boxes causing the R
process
    john> to freeze. I'll try to track down the source of these problems.

I'm not sure what the status of these is -- I do know that some people I
trust have wondered how the heck R even works under (X)Emacs on Windows
(issues arising with systems interfacing, blocking calls, and similar
"stuff").  

Note that I'm about 50% of the way to integrating John's work (along with
Tomy's (Thomas Gerd's) work for SAS) to provide toolbars.  I expect it to be
finished for the next release of ESS, so if you send feedback privately to
John, cc me if it is about problems (or you might mention to him that you've
not told me; I'll be in touch with him).

This will simplify matters when I check in the new ESS stuff into the XEmacs
package archives, since it will mean that you can install via the menu
package items (similar to the R package installer menu item).  

One question that has popped up is if the toolbar should be placed somewhere
else -- i.e. on the left or right sides -- I can make that an option,
defaulting to replacement of the top toolbar, or I could do it VM style on
the left side.  Thoughts?  

(probably the best reply to this would be to me, or we should move the
conversation over to the ess-help list).

best,
-tony

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