[ESS] Debug mode puts point in the wrong buffer
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Jun 21 15:21:54 CEST 2013
>>>>> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch>
>>>>> on Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:02:04 +0200 writes:
> Hi Vitalie, Thanks a lot! I updated and I now see *both*
> buffers in debug mode. The point is in 'grid-stuff.R' and
> M-N etc. works :-)
> For some reason, I guess I am a good 'test user' ... I run
> into many bugs with all kinds of software (not sure if
> this is :-) or :-( ).
> The mails with screenshots were rejected by the list's
> 'moderator' due to their size (not sure if this is a bug
> -- screenshots can be very helpful as we saw).
Hmm.. no. I got at least two screen shots from you, Marius.
Maybe some of them were too large, or in an image format that's
not allowed?
As ESS-help moderator (and "list overlord" of @r-project.org lists),
I'm wondering what made you say above.
> Thanks again for helping on this (and also so quickly).
indeed! and much thanks to Marius who persevered convincing
Vitalie that there must have been a bug.. ;-)
Martin
> Cheers,
> Marius
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Vitalie Spinu
> <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch> >> on Thu,
>> 20 Jun 2013 23:50:03 +0200 wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > When entering debug mode, I see *R* and 'grid-stuff.R'
>> (which is the > source file in 'simsalapar' containing
>> the function definition for > 'varlist'). The point is at
>> the beginning of the highlighted line (see > the attached
>> screenshot), so in 'grid-stuff.R'. But from there, M-N >
>> etc. does not work, so I have to put the point in *R*...
>>
>> This is a bug. Thanks for the screenshot. It made things
>> very clear. Believe it or not, but in 3 months that this
>> minor-map mechanism is in place in tracebug, your
>> situation never happened to me.
>>
>> The problem is that your grid-stuff.R is not associated
>> with the process (and you don't have red DB in that
>> buffer). Associate with the process (C-c C-s) and it
>> should be fine.
>>
>> I have just committed a fix to SVN.
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this,
>>
>> Vitalie
>>
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