unbalanced quotes vanish
Thomas Lumley
thomas at biostat.washington.edu
Mon Mar 6 17:58:31 CET 2000
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> "TL" == Thomas Lumley <thomas at biostat.washington.edu> writes:
>
> TL> When retrieving previous lines with M-p, unbalanced single or double
> TL> quotes are lost from those lines. This is presumably deliberate but it
> TL> can be annoying in XLISP-Stat where the sharp-quote and quote operators
> TL> have deliberate 'unbalanced' quotes
>
> TL> Eg the valid line
> TL> (def a1 (sort-data (mapcar #'third (simulate-lots 50000 ei nil #'rr))))
>
> TL> comes out from M-p as the invalid line
> TL> (def a1 (sort-data (mapcar #'third (simulate-lots 50000 ei nil # rr))))
>
> TL> Can this be turned off by an option?
>
> I have never seen this or heard about it.
> I'm not at all sure that this is deliberate.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
> Is it lisp(stat) specific or couldn't it happen in other ESS modes as well ?
> (I've tried a bit to see something like it in *R* and have not succeeded ...)
I get it in R too, with unbalanced single or double quotes (but not with
unbalanced single quotes inside a quoted string.
> "This is an error
Error: syntax error
(M-p) > This is an error
> 'This too
Error: syntax error
(M-p) > This too
Error: syntax error
> "But not 'this"
[1] "But not 'this"
(M-p) > "But not 'this"
I'm using XEmacs 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" [Lucid]
on Debian, with ESS 5.1.11
-thomas
Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle
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