[R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 9/20/2007 9:23 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
> Now I'm working in 2.5.1 on a home machine also running XP. It has the
> same problem, and I think I finally figured it out. 
> 
> I've noticed that if the cursor is directly over the text, it becomes an
> I-beam. When hovering over the blank space around the text, the cursor
> becomes an arrow. Selections via the arrow almost always paste properly
> into a script window. Copies made while selecting with the I-beam cursor
> almost always fail.
> 
> Regardless of how the selection is done, a paste into Notepad never
> fails. Copying from Notepad to a script window never fails, regardless
> of how the paste into Notepad was selected.

I believe this is fixed now.  The problem was that some of the rich text 
formatting was being pasted into the script window; it didn't reformat 
everything to fixed text.  I'm not sure why this resulted in loss of 
line feeds, but fixing it seems to have fixed that too.

This change should make it into 2.6.0.  If you take a look at builds 
starting tomorrow you can test it out.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Very strange!
> 
> Bob
> 
> P.S. almost the testing has been with the ?data.frame and ?summary
> examples.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:59 PM
>> To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
>> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window
>> 
>> On 20/09/2007 1:49 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
>> > Does this look like a bug? If so, is there a different way to report
>> it?
>> 
>> It sounds like a bug, but I can't reproduce it.  You said it is
>> intermittent on your system.  Can you try to work out the conditions
>> that reliably trigger it?
>> 
>> It might be something specific to your system; does anyone else see
>> this?
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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