[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 13.05 [<unknown>]; M-x ess-mode errors out

[Sam Steingold]

Thanks, that did it!

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> There is no command ess-mode. You are calling ess-mode-menu, hence the
> error. Try R-mode.
>
>     Vitalie
>
>
>  >> Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org>
>  >> on Mon, 20 May 2013 14:53:57 -0400 wrote:
>
>  > When I do M-x ess-mode RET in an ESS buffer (R), I get this:
>  > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "ess-mode-menu must be bound to an event with parameters")
>  >   call-interactively(ess-mode-menu record nil)
>  >   command-execute(ess-mode-menu record)
>  >   execute-extended-command(nil "ess-mode-menu")
>  >   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
>  >   command-execute(execute-extended-command)
>
>  > I need this because I want to switch the mode of the buffer to emacs
>  > lisp and back.
>
>  > (ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil, comint..echoes=t, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
>
>  > Finished setting up ESS-mode.
>  > (ess-version-string): buffer=SVN-REVISION
>
>  > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.3.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
>  >  of 2013-05-20 on t520sds
>  > Package: ess-mode 13.05 [<unknown>]
>
>  > current state:
>  > ==============
>  > (setq
>  >  ess-language nil
>  >  ess-dialect nil
>  >  ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil
>  >  ess-ask-about-transfile nil
>  >  ess-directory nil
>  >  ess-keep-dump-files "always"
>  >  ess-source-directory "/var/tmp"
>  >  ess-use-ido t
>  >  ess-use-eldoc t
>  >  ess-use-tracebug t
>  >  ess-use-auto-complete t
>  >  ess-eval-visibly-p 'nowait
>  >  ess-can-eval-in-background nil
>  >  ess-local-process-name nil
>  >  )



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