[ESS] Debug mode puts point in the wrong buffer

[Martin Maechler]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Marius Hofert
<marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> 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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>     Posting of your message titled "Re: [ESS] Debug mode puts point in
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Aha... well you said it was because of the image attachment,  but .. I
know I am knitpicking ..
really it was because the total message size  (including the image)
became too large.

I have now increased the maximal size to 250 K;  this will allow to
append one or two such *.png screenshots in the future.

Martin

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