Automating launch of R session and splitting into 2 buffers

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

I am looking for a good way to specify something in .emacs for Emacs
such that when I have a .r source file opened, hitting Esc R will split
the window into two buffers and start the R process in the lower buffer.
I find myself always doing Cntl-X-2 and then having to put foo.r back
into the upper buffer.

Tony Rossini outlined the following:

(defun myR ()
   (interactive)
   (if (= (major-mode 'current-buffer) 'R-mode)
            (split-window))
   (R)
   (put-cursor-other-window))

which would be invoked with M-x myR.  If anyone knows how to complete
that code including the spellings of the correct function calls, or has
another idea I'd appreciate hearing about it.  I have already put (setq
ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil) in my .emacs to bypass the selection of
the working directory.

Thanks
Frank

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[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:06:09 -0500,
Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@...> wrote:

> I am looking for a good way to specify something in .emacs for Emacs
> such that when I have a .r source file opened, hitting Esc R will
> split the window into two buffers and start the R process in the lower
> buffer.  I find myself always doing Cntl-X-2 and then having to put
> foo.r back into the upper buffer.

[...]

If I'm following you, I think all you need is to set
inferior-ess-same-window to nil.  Does that do what you want?


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[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Sebastian P. Luque wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:06:09 -0500,
> Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@...> wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a good way to specify something in .emacs for Emacs
>> such that when I have a .r source file opened, hitting Esc R will
>> split the window into two buffers and start the R process in the lower
>> buffer.  I find myself always doing Cntl-X-2 and then having to put
>> foo.r back into the upper buffer.
>
> [...]
>
> If I'm following you, I think all you need is to set
> inferior-ess-same-window to nil.  Does that do what you want?
>
>
> Cheers,
>

 > Seb

Thanks that worked beautifully!

Is there a way to have help files automatically opened in a new frame
when I issue ?functionname in the R session window (and hopefully to
keep using that frame for later instances of ?functionname)?

Thanks Sebastian,
Frank

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[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:47:06 -0500,
Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@...> wrote:

[...]

> Is there a way to have help files automatically opened in a new frame
> when I issue ?functionname in the R session window (and hopefully to
> keep using that frame for later instances of ?functionname)?

C-h v ess-help-own-frame


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[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Sebastian P. Luque wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:47:06 -0500,
> Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Is there a way to have help files automatically opened in a new frame
>> when I issue ?functionname in the R session window (and hopefully to
>> keep using that frame for later instances of ?functionname)?
>
> C-h v ess-help-own-frame
>
>

Perfect.  Thank you very much Sebastian, for both valuable pointers.
Frank

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[gerald.jean]

ess-help-bounces@... a écrit sur 2008/09/07 12:32:44 :

> On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:06:09 -0500,
> Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@...> wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a good way to specify something in .emacs for Emacs
> > such that when I have a .r source file opened, hitting Esc R will
> > split the window into two buffers and start the R process in the lower
> > buffer.  I find myself always doing Cntl-X-2 and then having to put
> > foo.r back into the upper buffer.
>
> [...]
>
> If I'm following you, I think all you need is to set
> inferior-ess-same-window to nil.  Does that do what you want?
>

Thanks Sebastien, I have been wanting this behaviour for a long, very long,
time!  But, it seems there is always a but, it is possible to have it the
other way around, i.e. the S process (S+ in my case) in the upper buffer?
I have been working that way for years, it is hard to change!!!

Thanks,

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>
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>
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[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:09:52 -0400,
gerald.jean@... wrote:

[...]

> Thanks Sebastien, I have been wanting this behaviour for a long, very
> long, time!  But, it seems there is always a but, it is possible to
> have it the other way around, i.e. the S process (S+ in my case) in
> the upper buffer?  I have been working that way for years, it is hard
> to change!!!

AFAICT, there's no built-in way to do that, but I remember someone
posted a function in emacswiki.org to swap buffers between windows.  If
you find it (sorry, I don't have it with me), you can add it to
inferior-ess-mode-hook (with nil inferior-ess-same-window).


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[Kevin Wright-2]

Here's one function for swapping.

;; Swap buffer windows
(defun swap-windows (arg)
  "Transpose the buffers shown in two windows."
  (interactive "p")
  (let ((selector (if (>= arg 0) 'next-window 'previous-window)))
    (while (/= arg 0)
      (let ((this-win (window-buffer))
            (next-win (window-buffer (funcall selector))))
        (set-window-buffer (selected-window) next-win)
        (set-window-buffer (funcall selector) this-win)
        (select-window (funcall selector)))
      (setq arg (if (plusp arg) (1- arg) (1+ arg))))))

;; And map it to a key
(define-key ctl-x-4-map (kbd "t") 'swap-windows)
(global-set-key "\C-xB" 'swap-windows)

Kevin Wright

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Sebastian P. Luque <spluque@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:09:52 -0400,
> gerald.jean@... wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Thanks Sebastien, I have been wanting this behaviour for a long, very
>> long, time!  But, it seems there is always a but, it is possible to
>> have it the other way around, i.e. the S process (S+ in my case) in
>> the upper buffer?  I have been working that way for years, it is hard
>> to change!!!
>
> AFAICT, there's no built-in way to do that, but I remember someone
> posted a function in emacswiki.org to swap buffers between windows.  If
> you find it (sorry, I don't have it with me), you can add it to
> inferior-ess-mode-hook (with nil inferior-ess-same-window).
>
>
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