[ESS] R hangs with ESS-emacs and options(error=recover)

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Seth" == Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org>
>>>>>     on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:17:02 -0700 writes:

    Seth> "Richard M. Heiberger" <rmh at temple.edu> writes:
    >> Yes, ESS is looking for a "> " prompt.  recover() is issuing
    >> a "Selection: " which is not the signal that ESS is looking for.

    Seth> Hmm, options(error=recover) seems to be working fine for me inside
    Seth> ESS.  

are you using the unreleased development version of ESS ?

There, we have fixed one of the problems of   options(error=recover)

Yes, I know we should release ESS-5.2.4 : The only problem is
that I had promissed to add things there, that haven't been done
yet...

Martin

    Seth> recover() calls the menu() function which requests user input
    Seth> before dropping into a browser.  Although menu appears to be internal
    Seth> it should be similar to readline.  I suspect something else is going
    Seth> on -- do these functions work for others or am I just lucky ;-)

    Seth> + seth