On Oct 5, 2010, at 16:29 , Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: > see below. > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Laurent Gatto <laurent.ga...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Dear Kjetil, >> >> On 5 October 2010 15:12, Kjetil Halvorsen >> <kjetilbrinchmannhalvor...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> emacs23+ess is great BUT there is a very large problem which is >>> driving me away from it: >>> (on ubuntu) since version 23, emacs has a very problematic bug, which >>> I have reported as: >>> >>> bug#6193: emacs 23 in ubuntu 10.04 gnu linux: >>> black lines overwrite text! >>> >>> but the emacs devs does'nt seem to respond. This makes in practice >>> emacs23+ess UNUSABLE until fixed. >> >> Am a bit surprised here, as I am happily running emacs 23 (23.1.1 with >> GTK+ user interface to be precise) and ess on ubuntu 10.04 and I do >> not have any problem. >> > > I am glad to here that, but it does'nt help me;! > > The problem with black lines overwriting text in emacs mostly occurs > if I have a high memory load (maybe around 1 GB used on this 2GB > system), mostly from other programs running (Firefox, document viewer, > others..)
Ouch! However, it sounds like an X11/font/memory/display type issue, and could well be unique to your hardware. One generic "fix" is to run emacs -nw in a terminal window. You'll lose the friendly menu bar and have to remember a bunch of keyboard shortcuts, but some of us did this for quite a while... -pd > > ¿can you try that? > > Kjetil > >> Laurent >> >>> Kjetil >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:52:53AM -0700, Mehdi Zarrei wrote: >>>>> I am looking for an editor to be able to execute commands into R in Linux >>>>> ubuntu. Is there any suggestion? >>>> >>>> 1. See R FAQ, Section 6 at >>>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-and-Emacs >>>> and do 'apt-get install emacs23 ess' >>>> >>>> 2. If Emacs isn't to your liking, try 'apt-get install kate' as one of >>>> the many alternates. >>>> >>>> 3. There is a dedicated list 'r-sig-debian' for Debian/Ubuntu. Subscribe, >>>> and post follow-ups there. >>>> >>>> Dirk >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
