[ESS-bugs] ESSR is not attached when running R under gdb

[Martin Maechler]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> Martin Maechler on Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:56:33 +0200 wrote:
>
>  > This is not a release stopper... but is happening to me about once a
>  > month... and sometimes I'm losing too many of my few remaining hairs
>  > about it:
>
>  > If you start R  "under gdb" (C level debugger; important, e.g. for
>  > debugging R packages containing C code), via
>
>  >   C-u  M-x  R   -d gdb [Enter]
>
>  > The first misfeature is that ESS does not end showing you the *R*
>  > buffer  {because it does not see the usual prompt}.
>
> ESS depends on prompt for pretty much everything. Nothing would work
> when prompt does not end in "> ". I think we have no choice than to
> adjust it to account for "(gdb) " prompt.
>
>   Vitalie

Yes, that will nicely solve the specific problem.

However you did not address my  main point:

There are  other reasons, an ESS user can end without ESSR in his search() path,
and I really think we need a possibility for the user to easily
"attach ESSR to search() [and run other corresponding functions].