[ESS] Debug mode puts point in the wrong buffer
Marius Hofert
marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch
Fri Jun 21 15:27:14 CEST 2013
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
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The files weren't particularly large, just standard Ubuntu screenshots as .png
>
> > 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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