I, personally, see tremendous slowdowns in XEmacs responsiveness when the buffer gets large, probably due to font-lock pretty-printing stuff. Since ESS can't / doesn't submit the next command until the fontification is done, things can slow down by a lot.
-G On Oct 7, 2007, at 4:24PM , Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > On 10/7/07, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you ever considered using C-u C-c C-r instead of C-c C-r? > > Yes (or equivalently (setq ess-eval-visibly-p nil)), and found that I > didn't like it much. In any case, I'm not looking for ugly > workarounds, I just wanted to point out that this could explain the > reported slowness. > > -Deepayan > >> Best regards >> >> Frede >> >> ________________________________ >> >> Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] på vegne af >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sendt: lø 06-10-2007 23:10 >> Til: Dirk Eddelbuettel >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >> Emne: Re: [R] Linux editor for R+LaTeX, but not Emacs >> >> >> >> On 10/6/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On 6 October 2007 at 11:01, Scionforbai wrote: >>> | > What features are you missing in emacs that you wish were >>> there? Are >>> | > these ESS features or LaTeX related features? >>> | >>> | is it only me or has anyone else the problem that running an R >>> process >>> | within emacs is way much slower than in a regular terminal/ >>> console? >>> | (linux here) >>> >>> It's just you, and if you think some more about it, you'll see >>> why we are >>> all >>> grinning. [ Hint: it can't be slower, outside of ridiculous corner >>> sitations >>> where there isn't enough ram for Emacs and R at the same time. Or >>> foobared >>> setups. In all normal situations, it'll be the same. ] >> >> Actually, copying multi-line R code (e.g. C-c C-r) is way slower with >> ESS if you use Emacs22 (and its derivatives such as AquaMacs). Things >> are perfect with Emacs21 though (and I'm sticking with it). Maybe >> that >> explains the discrepancy. >> >> -Deepayan >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >> guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
