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Re: emacs-shortcuts

To: gernot@asrc.cestm.albany.edu, s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
Subject: Re: emacs-shortcuts
From: Ray Brownrigg <ray@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:27:34 +1200 (NZST)
> Since a while I experience a strange problem with S-PLUS Version 5.0 R3 under 
> SunOS. I start S-PLUs by executing 'Splus -e' ,in order to get emacs 
> key-bindings for editing. Especially Control-P for going back into the 
> command 
> history is a real handy shortcut. This worked pretty fine until recently when 
> Control-P suddenly changed it behavior and instead of giving the last command 
> it 
> jumps to the very first command in the history. Rendering the function 
> useless, 
> IMO. 

Have a look at the file .Splus_history,  there's a good chance it is
greater than 1MB in size.  Reducing the size should cure the problem (I
just use an ordinary text editor).

Hope this helps,
Ray Brownrigg

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