Re: [ESS] [External] R Transcript opens in readonly buffer

2023-11-25 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
Yes, that is the designed behavior. A transcript is the history of a previous session. Normally you would not want to change it. What you might want to do is open a new .r file and copy the source code from the transcript into the new file. Pick up the entire section of transcript (input

[ESS] R Transcript opens in readonly buffer

2023-11-25 Thread Ishe Chinyoka via ESS-help
Hi, I am having a problem whereby if I save a .Rout transcript, when I try to open it next time, I cannot edit it. It opens the buffer in readonly mode. What could be the cause of opening in readonly mode? I wnat to continue working on some transcript in a new session. I am using emacs 29 and

Re: [ESS] [External] R Transcript opens in readonly buffer

2023-11-25 Thread Ishe Chinyoka via ESS-help
Thanks Rich, I thought something was wrong with my setup. I had thought that the transcript was to make it easy to carry on with a session after knocking off from your computer for some time. But then one queer thing is that when I set the variable ess-ask-about-transfile which, according to the