[R-SIG-Mac] R.app Editor

[Ken Knoblauch]

Angel Berihuete Macías <angel <at> alfomega.es> writes:
> I need your help. I am writing code in the editor window for R.app,  
> but when I write something like a^ (not sure of the correct technical  
> term) the application hangs, and I can't write anymore. It's happening  
> only with the symbol ^
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Angel
I have seen this, at least on occasion, but only when
the circumflex is typed on the last line of the editor window.
I can't give a reprodicible example because as I indicated,
it seems to be an intermittent problem, so will be much
more difficult to track down.  My solution has been to
save the file, close the window and re-open the file.
Hitting ESC has unfrozen the window, but with the
loss of the cursor, which is disorienting so the save/reopen
strategy seems better.  It doesn't happen very often so
given there is a simple recovery strategy, I'm not bothered
by a quirk in an otherwise very handy editor.  Typing extra blank lines
at the end of the file seems to help, too.  I can't say whether
that is superstition, however.

sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-03-01 r48037) 
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base  

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