Hello William, Many thanks for reporting your issue and many thanks to Greg for testing.
Sorry, I cannot reproduce the issue either. I don't think it is related to async. Could you try with 'emacs -Q'? my minimal configuration is along with emacs -Q is the following: #+begin_src elisp (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/src/gnu/org-mode/lisp") t) (require 'org) (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/djj/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20200825.829") #+end_src My ess-version is starting to date. I'm still on ess-version: 18.10.3snapshot [elpa: 20200825.829], but I'm not aware of any breaking changes in ESS. Best regards, Jeremie On Sunday, 17 Oct 2021 at 06:06, Greg Minshall wrote: > Bill, > >> I run Org from the source tree, and recently (a couple of weeks ago or >> so) something new started happening with my Org files with R source >> blocks: when I open one up, an R session automatically starts, >> without me doing anything. > > i don't see that behavior. does it do this for 'emacs -Q' (suitably > tailored to load org mode, set `org-babel-load-languages`, etc.)? > > cheers, Greg