[ESS-bugs] comint bug?

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 09:12:00 CET 2013


I am having some (not very reproducible) issues with help and completion
on remotes. I haven't look into it so far, but I would appreciate if we
could release towards the end of the week. I hope I can track them down
by then.

Hope you are recovering fast from the cold/flu. Everyone is falling down
here as well.

    Vitalie



 >>> Martin Maechler on Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:01:26 +0100 wrote:

 > I do work with transcripts implicitly, a lot:  If you package ./tests/
 >  or  'R CMD BATCH'
 > you get *.Rout (and possibly *.Rout.save) files and they are -- of
 > course -- in transcript mode;
 > and that *is* indeed very useful to navigate, re-evaluate, or  "clean
 > region" to produce an *.R script.

 > OTOH, I have never used the feature Stephen mentioned.
 > I'm glad you are looking into it.   I assume that it is quite an
 > isolated small problem, and will not need a long grace (aka "wait")
 > period after the fix (before releasing  13.09-1 !!)

 > Martin

 > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Stephen Eglen
 > <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
 >> 
 >>> I can reproduce. Have never used transcripts myself, so I am not testing
 >>> this functionality. Is this a new bug?
 >> 
 >> Thanks, I'll investigate.  I don't use this feature either, but was
 >> asked about it, and at that point I hit the bug!  So it could have been
 >> hidden for a while...
 >> 
 >> Stephen
 >> 
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