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

[Sam Steingold]

no, just pulled and merged.
I don't think I have any local changes.
I see the exact same incorrect code on

commit 8ce72455743aebb50340135df69e2324c243e23d
Merge: 48cd5bd 3a49687
Author: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Sep 15 23:26:09 2013 -0700

    Merge branch 'trunk'




On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> git show  e9a3e4c08
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'e9a3e4c08': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>
> Is this some 2-3 months old ESS merged with your local changes?
>
> Please make sure that it is the most recent version of our master branch
> that you are reporting from.
>
>    Vitalie
>
>  >>> Sam Steingold on Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:50:42 -0400 wrote:
>
>  >> * 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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