[R-SIG-Mac] Reporting a bug in Mac GUI

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Tue Jun 7 20:36:17 CEST 2005


Lance,

On Jun 7, 2005, at 4:47 AM, Lance Boyle wrote:

> when typing a function name and then an empty set of parentheses,  
> such as ls(), if the () are typed very quickly the command window  
> spews a couple lines of red stuff with several NSthis and NSthat,

could you, please, send us the "NSthis and NSthat" - without doing so  
your report is pretty much useless. Also you may try to run the build  
1564 or later as there were several important changes wrt to argument  
lookup and code completion. What computer do you use?

> then makes a line that looks like ls()(    -- with the extra  
> parens  --  and processes no further typed input. The app must be  
> quit and restarted in order to get unlocked from this stuck mode.

Did you try to press <Esc>? That can usually help ...

Cheers,
Simon



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