[ESS] problems with curly braces { }

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 05/27/10 01:31 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not very experienced with Emacs so my apologies if this is a
> stupid question.  Right now I am running:
>
> Windows (XP x32 at school; 7 x64 at home)
> XEmacs version 21.4.22
> ESS version 5.9.1
>
> When I have .R files open, I generally have these modes:
> ess-roxy-mode
> font-lock-mode
> line-number-mode
>
> When I try to type something like:
>
> for(i in index) {
> data<- otherdata[i]
> }
>
> It will not let me type the closing } on the bottom line.  It is not a
> problem if I type it on the line above, but I cannot use it on an
> empty line.  The error is:
>
> "Wrong type of argument: char-or-string-p, #keypress-event }>"
>
> I read that lisp will throw that error if the wrong type of object is
> used as a function argument, and I gather that it was looking for a
> character or string object.  What I am not certain about is why is "}"
> not a character or string?  What function is it being used in that
> does not like it?  Why does it work as long as there is something on
> the line already?
>
> Oh, also it does not replicate if I am just using the default scratch
> buffer in XEmacs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>

Hi Josh:

Very weird.  I see the same thing.  This is coming from 
ess-electric-brace from ess-mode.el  This feature is discussed here
http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Indenting
But, the documentation gives no inkling of turning this feature off or 
what to do if it is broken?!?

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