[ESS-bugs] clean transcript bug (not new): multi-line statements are losing lines 2-

[Vitalie Spinu]

I also noticed it a couple of weeks ago. Would be nice to have it fixed.

  Vitalie

 >>> Martin Maechler on Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:03:15 +0200 wrote:

 > If you open a typical *.Rout file , e.g. produced by   R CMD BATCH  foo.R
 > or from an R session part sent to you by e-mail ...

 > There's the  ESS-trans  menu  with the nice entry  'clean region'
 > which I use every so often.
 > Notably I use C-x h (mark whole page) and then M-x
 > ess-transcript-clean-region
 > [and now I found that I/we have had  ess-transcript-clean-buffer defined
 > already, but not on a key or a menu;
 >  ... I'm changing the things a bit, now].

 > However, as the subject says, if you have multiline statements, i.e.,
 > things like

 >> foo <- long.calling.function(..., ..sdf.,..,.,.,.,.,,.,.........,
 > +                                .more arguments, .......)

 > the  ess-transcript-clean-region   only keeps the first line of the two in
 > the "cleaned buffer".
 > As I mention, this is not a new bug,
 > *however* it is not a very old bug either.
 > I'm pretty sure this did work okay in the old days of ESS 5.xxx

 > As that has bothered me more than once,
 > I'd like to have a look (or have you have a look) before releasing  ESS
 > 13.09-1
 > ... but not having us delaying the rlease for more than a few days.

 > Martin

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