[ESS] Debug mode puts point in the wrong buffer

[Marius Hofert]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:02:04 +0200 writes:
>
>     > Hi Vitalie, Thanks a lot! I updated and I now see *both*
>     > buffers in debug mode.  The point is in 'grid-stuff.R' and
>     > M-N etc. works :-)
>
>     > For some reason, I guess I am a good 'test user' ... I run
>     > into many bugs with all kinds of software (not sure if
>     > this is :-) or :-( ).
>
>     > The mails with screenshots were rejected by the list's
>     > 'moderator' due to their size (not sure if this is a bug
>     > -- screenshots can be very helpful as we saw).
>
> Hmm.. no.  I got at least two screen shots from you, Marius.
> Maybe some of them were too large, or in an image format that's
> not allowed?
>
> As ESS-help moderator (and "list overlord" of @r-project.org lists),
> I'm wondering what made you say above.

I obtained an email:

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The files weren't particularly large, just standard Ubuntu screenshots as .png

>
>     > Thanks again for helping on this (and also so quickly).
>
> indeed!  and much thanks to Marius who persevered convincing
> Vitalie that there must have been a bug.. ;-)
>
> Martin
>
>     > Cheers,
>     > Marius
>
>
>
>     > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Vitalie Spinu
>     > <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >> >> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch> >> on Thu,
>     >> 20 Jun 2013 23:50:03 +0200 wrote:
>     >>
>     >> [...]
>     >>
>     >> > When entering debug mode, I see *R* and 'grid-stuff.R'
>     >> (which is the > source file in 'simsalapar' containing
>     >> the function definition for > 'varlist'). The point is at
>     >> the beginning of the highlighted line (see > the attached
>     >> screenshot), so in 'grid-stuff.R'. But from there, M-N >
>     >> etc. does not work, so I have to put the point in *R*...
>     >>
>     >> This is a bug. Thanks for the screenshot. It made things
>     >> very clear. Believe it or not, but in 3 months that this
>     >> minor-map mechanism is in place in tracebug, your
>     >> situation never happened to me.
>     >>
>     >> The problem is that your grid-stuff.R is not associated
>     >> with the process (and you don't have red DB in that
>     >> buffer). Associate with the process (C-c C-s) and it
>     >> should be fine.
>     >>
>     >> I have just committed a fix to SVN.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks for reporting this,
>     >>
>     >> Vitalie
>     >>