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

[Ista Zahn]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:56 AM, 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.

The usual recipe is to start with emacs -q and then evaluate

(package-initialize)
(require 'ess-site)

in the scratch buffer, then check to see if you can reproduce the bug.
If you have ESS installed in a way that it is not in your load-path by
default you may have to do something along the lines of

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/ESS/lisp/")
(load "ess-site")

Best,
Ista



>
> 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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