[ESS] Debug mode puts point in the wrong buffer

[Marius Hofert]

Thanks, Martin... I actually was precisely wondering about the maximal
size, too. 250K is great.

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Marius Hofert
> <marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I obtained an email:
>>
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>>     Posting of your message titled "Re: [ESS] Debug mode puts point in
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>
> Aha... well you said it was because of the image attachment,  but .. I
> know I am knitpicking ..
> really it was because the total message size  (including the image)
> became too large.
>
> I have now increased the maximal size to 250 K;  this will allow to
> append one or two such *.png screenshots in the future.
>
> Martin
>
>>
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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
>> >     >>
>>