On 9 September 2016 11:00, Stephen Eglen wrote: >> I found the cause of the password echoing: the "Process Echoes" menu >> item in the iESS->Process menu is checked. This is also the case when I >> load ESS in Emacs started with -Q. Both with -Q and with my >> initializations, comint-process-echoes is nil (the default), and the >> above menu item reverses this value, activating echoing. So the obvious >> question is, why isn't this the case for those ESS users (apparently >> almost everyone) who don't get the password echoing? For these users, >> it seems comint-process-echoes is (changed to) non-nil when ESS is >> loaded; why -- or why doesn't that happen for me? > > Thanks Steve; this sounds promising. > > In my .emacs file I have > > ;; In Emacs 22, this has become necessary: > (setq ess-eval-visibly-p nil)
Same in my case (likely based on Stephen's advice). > I recall this was needed otherwise *R* buffers became very slow to > interact with. Relevant references: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2770523/how-can-i-background-the-r-process-in-ess-emacs https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/attachments/20131125/230f81de/attachment.pl > When I change that to t, I see the password echo... > > Stephen > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
