R help - Oct 2002 - gnuclient.exe as pager ?

Hi,
 
I see there are some previous threads on gnuclient.exe, but I can't
figure this out based on those...

I recently started using ESS with Xemacs. I'm on Windows XP. On starting
iESS, my editor gets set to 'gnuclient.exe'. I don't understand how
this
works, since there is no executable anywhere on my machine called
"gnuclient.exe". But I have no complaints: I like the primitive
spreadsheet that now gets invoked by edit.data.frame. Now, I would like
to be able to also use this gizmo as my pager (I would prefer to only
call edit.data.frame when I really intend to do some editing). But
setting options(pager = "gnuclient.exe") doesn't do the trick. I
can't
figure out what's going on, since page calls file.show, which calls
.Internal. 

So, can I use "gnuclient.exe" as my pager? How? 

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Thanks very much, 
Jim Rogers



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You need to install gnuserv. You can get it from the windows/emacs/contrib
area on any GNU mirror, and there is more information in the NTemacs FAQ
(in windows/emacs/docs).  You will need something like

(require 'gnuserv)
(gnuserv-start)
(setq gnuserv-frame (selected-frame))

in _emacs or site-start.el.

Once that's done, you can from a command line use

gnuclientw foo

and file foo popds up to view in a emacs frame.

If you use

gnuclient foo

foo popds up to be edited, and you need to release the file (^x # as I
recall).

So you want gnuclientw and not gnuclient as your pager.


On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jim Rogers wrote:
> I see there are some previous threads on gnuclient.exe, but I can't
> figure this out based on those...
>
> I recently started using ESS with Xemacs. I'm on Windows XP. On
starting
> iESS, my editor gets set to 'gnuclient.exe'. I don't understand
how this
> works, since there is no executable anywhere on my machine called
> "gnuclient.exe". But I have no complaints: I like the primitive
> spreadsheet that now gets invoked by edit.data.frame. Now, I would like
Objection!  The R data editor is not primitive, and it is not a
spreadsheet.
> to be able to also use this gizmo as my pager (I would prefer to only
It is not a pager either.  A pager displays a text file, a page at a time.
> call edit.data.frame when I really intend to do some editing). But
> setting options(pager = "gnuclient.exe") doesn't do the
trick. I can't
> figure out what's going on, since page calls file.show, which calls
> .Internal.
but R is Open Source and you can read the code ....
> So, can I use "gnuclient.exe" as my pager? How?

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