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

[Vitalie Spinu]

Strange, why I don't see the bug then. Will try to check it assap.

Thanks for the report. 

  Vitalie


 >>> Sam Steingold on Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:26:20 -0400 wrote:
 > 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)?