[ESS] ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Patrick,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Patrick Connolly
<p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> This is about the shortest I can get that shows what happens: Just
> what the example function does is not material to my question.

Can you reproduce this following only these instructions starting from
'emacs -q'? I cannot, i.e., it works as expected for me.

<SNIP>

> (custom-set-variables
>   ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  '(inferior-ess-dump-command "dump(\"%s\",file=\"%s\", control=\"useSource\")
> ")
> '(ess-source-directory "./.tmp")
>  '(load-home-init-file t t))

This suggests to me that you did _not_ start with emacs -q, so indeed
you should start looking at your configuration to see where the
problem is. Did you try commenting out the 'ess-source-directory'
setting to see if that is the problem?

Best,
Ista

>
> Ideas as to where I should look are welcome.
>
> best
> Patrick
>
> On Thu, 12-Apr-2018 at 11:08PM -0400, Ista Zahn wrote:
>
> |> Hi Patrick,
> |>
> |> I don't use ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer, so I'm not sure what
> |> exactly you expect it to do. A specific example would help, i.e., a
> |> description of exactly what you did, exactly what happened, and how
> |> what happened differed from you expectation.
> |>
> |> For example, if I start R with 'M-x R <ret>' and do 'M-x
> |> ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer <ret> getwd <ret>' I see a new buffer
> |> is created containing
> |>
> |> getwd <-
> |>     function ()
> |>         .Internal(getwd())
> |>
> |> Is that what you see? If so, how does it differ from what you expect?
> |> If you see something different, how does your setup differ from mine?
> |> I'm running Emacs 25.3 and ESS 17.11 [elpa: 20180412.315]
> |>
> |> Best,
> |> Ista
> |>
> |> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Patrick Connolly
> |> <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> |> > Thanks Ista.
> |> >
> |> > The result is not the same, but it's equally useless.  It produces almost
> |> > the same as typing the name of the function and pressing <Enter>. That is to
> |> > say, unless the function has been edited in the working directory, it lists
> |> > all the code without any of the comments almost in the form of a list
> |> > element labelled "structure" and a second element labelled "source" which
> |> > contains all the source in the form of a character vector.   Quite a lot of
> |> > text wrangling is required to get that text into the form of an editable
> |> > function.
> |> >
> |> > There is a slight difference from what results from typing the function name
> |> > and pressing <Enter>  in that the word "structure" is not in the latter and
> |> > the source is an attr.
> |> >
> |> > (I say "almost" because neither form is exactly the same as how a list is
> |> > displayed.)
> |> >
> |> > Is that intended behaviour?
> |> >
> |> > TIA
> |> > Patrick
> |> >
> |> > On 04/13/2018 01:48 AM, Ista Zahn wrote:
> |> >
> |> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Patrick Connolly
> |> > <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> |> >
> |> > Thanks for the response, however, if I start Emacs with a '-q' none of
> |> > my ~/.emacs file is read, so Emacs doesn't know how to start R.  More
> |> > to the point, I'm unable to run R within Emacs any other way.
> |> >
> |> > The usual recipe is to start with emacs -q and then evaluate
> |> >
> |> > (package-initialize)
> |> > (require 'ess-site)
> |> >
> |> > in the scratch buffer, then check to see if you can reproduce the bug.
> |> > If you have ESS installed in a way that it is not in your load-path by
> |> > default you may have to do something along the lines of
> |> >
> |> > (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/ESS/lisp/")
> |> > (load "ess-site")
> |> >
> |> > Best,
> |> > Ista
> |> >
> |> >
> |> >
> |> > I gather there is a way of applying individual lines of the .emacs
> |> > files but a bear with a small brain doesn't know how to do that (or
> |> > where to look in the manual how to do it),
> |> >
> |> > It would appear, if it doesn't reproduce, that the problem is
> |> > somewhere in my .emacs file.  That's a hodge-podge of various things
> |> > I've picked up over the decades so it wouldn't be surprising to find
> |> > some incompatibilities.
> |> >
> |> > Ideas appreciated.
> |> >
> |> >
> |> > On Wed, 11-Apr-2018 at 07:44AM -0400, Ista Zahn wrote:
> |> >
> |> > |> I can't reproduce it with the latest ESS from melpa. Can you give
> |> > |> reproduction steps starting with
> |> > |>
> |> > |> emacs -q
> |> > |>
> |> > |> ?
> |> > |>
> |> > |> --Ista
> |> > |>
> |> > |> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:58 AM, Patrick Connolly
> |> > |> <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> |> > |> > For a long time I used to be able to use
> |> > |> >
> |> > |> > ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer
> |> > |> >
> |> > |> > to create a buffer that could be used to edit the designated function
> |> > |> > from anywhere on the search path to make a local version.
> |> > |> >
> |> > |> > Starting at about ess-15.x, only the first 5 or so lines of code is
> |> > |> > made available which I took to be a bug that would be fixed.  However,
> |> > |> > I was mistaken.  I installed ess-17.11 and it's still the same.  Being
> |> > |> > a bear with only a small brain, I can't imagine what use that would be
> |> > |> > if it's what is intended.
> |> > |> >
> |> > |> > Could it be that there is an additional setting that allows all of the
> |> > |> > function (including comments) to be dumped into that buffer?  Perhaps,
> |> > |> > more difficult to track down, I have something else in my ~/.emacs
> |> > |> > file that is incompatible.
> |> > |> >
> |> > |> > TIA for suggestions.
> |> > |> >
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