I'm working on a project that is in S+ 8.1, and I am using Windows 7 with the latest packaged ESS from Vincent. The folder to splus.exe and sqpe.exe is in PATH.
Is there anyway to get that version of S+ running in ESS?
R works no problem. S+, however, is nothing but trouble.
M-x S tells me to run from icon, then use M-x S-existing.
Doing so with M-x S-existing causes emacs to hang up and crash.
M-x Sqpe lets me select a starting directory, but then gives the error 'spawning child process: invalid argument' and nothing happens.
I have tried adding these lines of code to my .emacs file (based on some outdated mailing list threads), but the results stay the same:
(require 'ess-site)
(setq-default inferior-S-program-name
"C://Program Files (x86)//TIBCO//splus81//cmd//SPLUS.exe")
(setq-default inferior-Sqpe-program-name
"C://Program Files (x86)//TIBCO//splus81//cmd//sqpe.exe")
Note: I have tried with single slashes as well.
I get the same results if I do S+6, Sqpe+6, etc.
Does anyone know if this is even possible? I am an emacs fiend, so it drives me crazy that S+ won't work in it.
Thanks for any help!
I ended up asking the ESS mailing list. Turns out that this is an issue with the current ESS. Going back to version 5.14 gives support for Splus 8.1 w/ Windows.
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I'm running emacs 24.5.1 on an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine on a Windows 7 machine (all 64 bit). I'm trying to use my tags file to navigate a source tree. M-. and M-* work great but when I try the M-? command, it says it is undefined. I do not see this on other Emacs I am using; for example, on Windows 7, my Emacs 25.3.1 works fine. Why is that particular command broken? My init.el file has nothing in it but a line to ignore case on tab completion.
#jpkotta had the right idea. Building emacs 25.3.1 fixed this problem. I'm not sure why this ancient command disappeared in emacs 24.
i have a few keys that i prefer to force-bind to keys i'm familiar with, and so i have used this SO Solution .
but i have found recently that it breaks for me.
the circumstances: it works fine when running 24.2.1 in window mode as build 2012-08-27 on bob.parkland.org (i.e. the pre-build emacs-for-mac solution found at http://emacsformacosx.com/).
but then it will not work when run in terminal on lion, which is 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin) of 2012-01-12 on b1006.apple.com .
if i comment out the call to add the hook, it works fine.
the problem is partly that i byte-compiled the code found at the other link above into a separate loadable .elc file … and did so with the newer version of emacs.
when i go back to the 22.1.1 version of emacs and byte-compile it with that version, it works in both versions of emacs without problems.
I'm having difficulties with gdb under emacs 24.
I compiled my c code with the -g switch, and the symbol table loads in gdb.
The problem I'm having is that no source code is shown when I load my application, no breakpoints are visible. I guess there appears to be no connection between the source code buffer and gdb buffer.
I have used gdb under emacs before (emacs 22, and 23) and it worked well and now it doesn't.
I also tried it under emacs -q so no plugins are loaded in case my .emacs was at fault, no joy.
Just to recap (so I don't get "compile with -g" answers):
I compiled with -g I loaded emacs with no plugins
I used annotate=3with gud-gdb
I even tried gdb-mi (doesn't work at all, didn't pursue
this road any further)
Gdb ain't working with source code showing (with breakpoints).
What can I do to fix it, or at least how can I find out what's wrong?
M-x gud-gdb is not for use with annotate=3 but with --fullname (aka --annotate=1, IIRC).
Try M-x gdb with -i=mi instead of --annotate=3.
Then it worked for me, but it's damn slow in my case :/
When did you build Emacs 24? There's been a lot of churn in the gdb/gud area from emacs-devel. If you repro problems in the latest (i.e. today's) build, report bugs ASAP. The pretest is coming to an end very soon.
I'm using the latest nXhtml checked out from the repo, and using GNU Emacs version 24.0.91.1. When I open a PHP file it shows as un-syntax-highlighted text, and I get a compile error:
Error: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
and a message in the log:
File mode specification error: (cl-assertion-failed (functionp byte-compiled-fun))
I'm avoiding my .emacs and .emacs.d by running emacs with this command:
emacs -Q --eval '(load "/path/to/nxhtml/autostart")' /path/to/nxhtml/tests/in/heredoc.php
Even if you don't have a fix, how can I go about debugging this issue?
There seem to be a fair amount of such wrong-type-argument errors lately with the development version of Emacs (24). This might represent an Emacs bug. Or it might represent an nXhtml bug.
I suggest starting by notifying Lennart, the nXhtml author, trying to give him a clear recipe, starting from emacs -Q.
If that doesn't help, consider filing an Emacs bug: M-x report-emacs-bug.
To try to debug it a bit yourself, be sure to load only source files (e.g. for nXhtml), i.e., *.el, not *.elc, starting preferably with emacs -Q (no init file). Do M-x set-variable debug-on-error t to see where the error is raised. Then perhaps use M-x debug-on-entry FUNCTION, where FUNCTION is the function where the error seems to have been raised. Then step through the Emacs debugger, hitting d to step and c to skip through a step.
But again, I suggest starting with Lennart.
Try the newest version of Emacs.
I had the same problem (on Windows 7):
Error: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
at line 1471 of nxhtml-loaddefs.el.
Nxhtml seems fine on Emacs 24.1.50.1 (23 April 2012).
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/?C=M;O=D
I quite satisfied of how GNU tools run in my Cygwin on Windows Seven. I think it's easier just to use GNU/Linux, but my company here has the policy of using Windows Seven for the Programmer programming environment. So, the solution is Cygwin. And I use Emacs intensively for my programming purpose.
But, it seems that Emacs running in Cygwin create a consistent (phrew) crash dump that printed on the console. I had to refresh it using C-l, but that makes me wonder : what is the problem anyway?
Does anyone has the same problem here? And what is the solution.
This is my example of running org-googlecl.
Process googlecl-list finished
* List of blogs with in the * List of blogs with in the title :gblog:
12719501 [main] emacs-X11 1168 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
12720164 [main] emacs-X11 1168 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to emacs-X11.exe.stackdump
12889237 [main] emacs-X11 764 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
12889852 [main] emacs-X11 764 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to emacs-X11.exe.stackdump
And it always create emacs-X11.exe.stackdump. It always happen when I run another process from within emacs, that is if I run a batch file from Emacs.
Thank you
I recently ran into this issue when upgrading my version of Cygwin to 1.7.9-1. pserice's solution looked promising but did not work for me. The solution that worked for me was to run rebaseall:
Close ALL Cygwin processes (use Process Explorer to make sure that nothing has cygwin1.dll loaded in it)
Start > Run > Cmd.exe
cd \cygwin\bin
ash
PATH=.
rebaseall -v
After that, emacs stopped crashing every time it tried to run a subprocess.
Win7 aborts processes that overwrite parts of the stack. If you trust cygwin executables, you can selectively exclude them as follows:
Computer -> Properties
-> Advanced System Settings
-> Performance
-> Settings...
-> Data Execution Prevention
I excluded the following:
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\emacs-nox.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.exe
I have had this same problem in running console emacs through cygwin on Windows 7.
My solution to this was to install the native GNU Emacs Windows client: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ and set cygwin's bash.exe as my shell.
You can see my emacs.d/init.el at https://github.com/tildedave/init.el/blob/master/init.el: here is the part relevant to making sure that the Windows 7 Emacs plays well with cygwin --
(if is-windows
(progn
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
'shell-strip-ctrl-m nil t)
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
'comint-watch-for-password-prompt nil t)
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "bash.exe")
(setq shell-file-name explicit-shell-file-name)))
For light-weight in-console editing I use nano, which does not core dump.
I can't help with the specific issue, but as a possible alternative you could look at running Emacs in a Linux VM hosted on your Windows box. You can use Cygwin's X.org server as the display, so the end result is largely the same as using Cygwin's Emacs.
It means jumping through a few more hoops, but I find it a good solution, and it will hopefully avoid the crashes.
I'm using VirtualBox to host my VM.