Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310141112590.8770-100000@itasca.stat.uiowa.edu>
Date: 2003-10-14T18:15:12Z
From: Luke Tierney
Subject: 1.8.0 on Unix: interrupting huge print()s ??
In-Reply-To: <16267.469.777551.244883@arbres1a.fmr.com>
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, David Brahm wrote:
> Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > When accidentally calling print() {implicitly}, we have been used here to
> > press CTRL+c (twice in Emacs ESS!) for stopping the output.
> > This no longer works in R 1.8.0 at least on our unix platforms.
>
> Luke Tierney <luke@stat.uiowa.edu> wrote:
> > Needs a call to R_CheckUserInterrupt at the appropriate place...
>
> Most unfortunate! Our system is like Martin's (Solaris 2.8, Emacs, ESS)
> and we also lose the use of ^C^C with R-1.8.0. It's probably enough to prevent
> us from upgrading. I saw no sign of Luke's proposed patch as of 10/13 (in the
> NEWS file); is one in the works? Thanks.
>
The change is now checked in to patches and devel branches.
If C-c C-c does not work for you at all in ESS then this is not
related to R changes in 1.8.0 (I sometimes seem to need C-g C-c C-c).
luke
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