[R] gnuclient.exe as pager ?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

You need to install gnuserv. You can get it from the windows/emacs/contrib
area on any GNU mirror, and there is more information in the NTemacs FAQ
(in windows/emacs/docs).  You will need something like

(require 'gnuserv)
(gnuserv-start)
(setq gnuserv-frame (selected-frame))

in _emacs or site-start.el.

Once that's done, you can from a command line use

gnuclientw foo

and file foo popds up to view in a emacs frame.

If you use

gnuclient foo

foo popds up to be edited, and you need to release the file (^x # as I
recall).

So you want gnuclientw and not gnuclient as your pager.


On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jim Rogers wrote:

> I see there are some previous threads on gnuclient.exe, but I can't
> figure this out based on those...
>
> I recently started using ESS with Xemacs. I'm on Windows XP. On starting
> iESS, my editor gets set to 'gnuclient.exe'. I don't understand how this
> works, since there is no executable anywhere on my machine called
> "gnuclient.exe". But I have no complaints: I like the primitive
> spreadsheet that now gets invoked by edit.data.frame. Now, I would like

Objection!  The R data editor is not primitive, and it is not a
spreadsheet.

> to be able to also use this gizmo as my pager (I would prefer to only

It is not a pager either.  A pager displays a text file, a page at a time.

> call edit.data.frame when I really intend to do some editing). But
> setting options(pager = "gnuclient.exe") doesn't do the trick. I can't
> figure out what's going on, since page calls file.show, which calls
> .Internal.

but R is Open Source and you can read the code ....

> So, can I use "gnuclient.exe" as my pager? How?


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