[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 13.09 [git: e9a3e4c08e01f40923d67d6d581f8fe67fb1b44a]; error while typing in an R buffer

[Sam Steingold]

> * Sam Steingold <fqf at tah.bet> [2013-09-17 16:44:32 -0400]:
>
> while typing in a comment line in an R buffer, I get this error:
> ("tim" is the part of the word "time" which I managed to finish before
> being hit with the error)
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep tim)
>   replace-regexp-in-string("\\\\" "\\\\" tim nil t)
>   ess-quote-special-chars(tim)
>   ess-function-arguments(tim #<process R>)
>   ess-R-eldoc-function()

the cause is that `symbol-at-point' returns a symbol, not a string, and
that symbol is passed to ess-quote-special-chars which expects a
string.

The solution is to use (thing-at-point 'symbol) instead of
(symbol-at-point).

Do you want a patch (or git pull request)?

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