[ESS-bugs] New?: Rd preview mode --> "l" for ess-eval-line-.. FAILS

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
  >> on Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:03:18 +0200 wrote:

  > I think this bug is quite new.
  > In an *.Rd file (with \examples{}!), 
  > use  C-c C-p to go to Rd preview mode
  > then go to the examples section  ("s e" is sufficient for that)
  > and try to send lines to R using 'l'.

  > It is still correctly bound

  >   l runs the command ess-eval-line-and-step, which is an interactive compiled
  >   Lisp function in `ess-inf.el'.

I have corrected this. 

  > but now gives ominuous error
  >    "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
  > and *Messages* shows that it happened inside
  >     (ess-start-process-specific .)

Can you please report the full *backgtrace* in the future. It would save
some time.

This occurred when there is not local ess-dialect.  I have added an
explicit error in a couple of places for the future.


    Vitalie