[R-SIG-Mac]fix() recovery

[Stefano Iacus]

No this does not solve your problem. I'll try to see what's going on. 
Thanks for spotting this Peter.

Stefano

On Venerdì, ottobre 12, 2001, at 09:53 , Stefano Iacus wrote:

> you should use newf <- edit(newf)
>
> or again fix(newf)
>
> I hope this helps you.
>
> On the contrary I discovered a bug with the edit window I'm about to 
> fix.
> This is linked to the displaying of help files.
>
> If you have an object that somewhere contains a "_", the edit window 
> will remove it.
>
> Stefano
>
>
> On Giovedì, ottobre 11, 2001, at 09:06 , Peter Macdonald wrote:
>
>> If I edit a function in fix() and the function has a syntax error, I am
>> unable to recover the edit file on Macintosh the way I do on other
>> platforms. This is what I get:
>>
>>> fix(newf)
>> Error in edit(name, file, editor) : An error occurred on line 5
>>  use a command like
>>  x <- edit()
>>  to recover
>>> newf <- edit()
>> Error in edit(name, file, editor) : unable to open file to read
>>
>> Here, edit() opens an empty window instead of a window with the code 
>> from
>> the previous fix().
>>
>> Any suggestions? Thanks!
>>