[ESS] ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Lionel Henry <lionel.hry using gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:52:29 +0200 writes:

    > I think we should adjust the max lines before calling
    > dump().  In the mean time you can do it manually:

    >     options(deparse.max.lines = NA)

    > The reason for the change of behaviour is this change in
    > R:

    >     https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/201ddbd16e8f410c469dcd4695471c0bedd65dd5

    > dput() and dump() should probably set this option to NA
    > themselves.

    > Lionel

whoa!    You have a very good point, Lionel!

This is completely undocumented inside R  apart from the NEWS
entry, and that (missing docu) is indeed a bug...
and I agree that  dput() and dump() should possibly be changed
by getting a version of that as explicit argument.

Still wondering why Pat (the OP) got the problem.
That option is __unset__ by default which is equivalent to setting
it to NA.

Hence nobody else saw the problem ..
Pat?

Martin

    >> On 12 avr. 2018, at 09:56, Patrick Connolly <p_connolly using slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
    >> 
    >> Thanks for the response, however, if I start Emacs with a '-q' none of
    >> my ~/.emacs file is read, so Emacs doesn't know how to start R.  More
    >> to the point, I'm unable to run R within Emacs any other way.
    >> 
    >> I gather there is a way of applying individual lines of the .emacs
    >> files but a bear with a small brain doesn't know how to do that (or
    >> where to look in the manual how to do it),
    >> 
    >> It would appear, if it doesn't reproduce, that the problem is
    >> somewhere in my .emacs file.  That's a hodge-podge of various things
    >> I've picked up over the decades so it wouldn't be surprising to find
    >> some incompatibilities.
    >> 
    >> Ideas appreciated.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> On Wed, 11-Apr-2018 at 07:44AM -0400, Ista Zahn wrote:
    >> 
    >> |> I can't reproduce it with the latest ESS from melpa. Can you give
    >> |> reproduction steps starting with
    >> |> 
    >> |> emacs -q
    >> |> 
    >> |> ?
    >> |> 
    >> |> --Ista
    >> |> 
    >> |> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:58 AM, Patrick Connolly
    >> |> <p_connolly using slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
    >> |> > For a long time I used to be able to use
    >> |> >
    >> |> > ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer
    >> |> >
    >> |> > to create a buffer that could be used to edit the designated function
    >> |> > from anywhere on the search path to make a local version.
    >> |> >
    >> |> > Starting at about ess-15.x, only the first 5 or so lines of code is
    >> |> > made available which I took to be a bug that would be fixed.  However,
    >> |> > I was mistaken.  I installed ess-17.11 and it's still the same.  Being
    >> |> > a bear with only a small brain, I can't imagine what use that would be
    >> |> > if it's what is intended.
    >> |> >
    >> |> > Could it be that there is an additional setting that allows all of the
    >> |> > function (including comments) to be dumped into that buffer?  Perhaps,
    >> |> > more difficult to track down, I have something else in my ~/.emacs
    >> |> > file that is incompatible.
    >> |> >
    >> |> > TIA for suggestions.
    >> |> >
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