[ESS] ?':::' hangs

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 12/04/2013 12:50 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> ESS from git as of yesterday + emacs 23.4 + R 2.15.1
>

I'm using SVN as of right now ;o) r5934 + emacs 24.3.1 + R 2.15.3

> ?':::'
> simply hangs--spinning cursor
> ctl-g stops the spinning but does not return to an R command prompt
> ctl-c ctl-c interrupts and gets a command prompt.
>

same here

> ?:::
> returns to the command prompt immediately; the*Messages*  buffer shows
> Error: unexpected ':::' in "?:::"
>
> help(':::') displays the appropriate help.
>

dittos

> I've had a string of quirky, only semi-reproducible errors; maybe this
> is another one.  I did restart emacs and the error  persisted (actually,
> before that I also couldn't get any help at all--help is working
> generally in the new session).

No, not for me.  Help is working fine.

-- 
Rodney Sparapani, PhD
Manager of Statistical & Computational Operations
Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR)
Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, USA
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