Yes thank you, with some guidance from Alex Branham I figured out that I was missing the piece where you activate the inferior process. Works quite well now and thank you for the response
On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Should work out of the box if you have a running R process. It also > depends on > what you have in your `company-backends`. ESS adds its backends in front > of the > list (company-R-args company-R-objects) but something might have gotten in > front > and might be hijacking the completion. Also check that ess-use-company is > non-nil. > > Vitalie > > > > >> On Sun, Mar 18 2018 09:05, Vince West wrote: > > > I've been racking my brain and googling for last 48 hours but have been > > unable to figure this out. > > > RStudio has very nice auto-complete features baked in, but I can't seem > to > > get it working with ESS. > > > I am using emacs latest on Windows 10 x64, R3.4.3, installing ESS from > > MELPA and installing company-mode from MELPA > > > For controlled experimentation my init.el file is pretty bare bones (see > > below). > > > I open up a new R buffer and ess mode seems to initialize properly. I > type > > M-x company-mode to enable company mode, but I get no autocomplete of any > > kind. Company-mode is working properly on elisp files. Wondering if > > anybody has a working example of ESS autocomplete working on Windows and > > can tell me how to get it functioning properly. > > > I suppose I should also note that during the MELPA installation of ess I > > get a messages output that is 737 lines long and is littered with > warnings > > about obsolete functions, obsolete variables, assignements to free > > variables references to free variables, and functions that are not known > to > > be defined. > > > Here is my init file > > > ----- > > init.el > > ----- > > (require 'package) > > (let* ((no-ssl (and (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)) > > (not (gnutls-available-p)))) > > (proto (if no-ssl "http" "https"))) > > (add-to-list 'package-archives (cons "melpa" (concat proto ":// > > melpa.org/packages/")) t) > > ) > > (package-initialize) > > > ;; emacs controlled settings > > (custom-set-variables > > '(package-selected-packages (quote (company ess))) > > '(show-paren-mode t) > > '(tool-bar-mode nil)) > > (custom-set-faces > > '(default ((t (:family "Consolas" :foundry "outline" :slant normal > :weight > > normal :height 113 :width normal))))) > > > (require 'company) > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
