[R-SIG-Mac] Weird keyboard/buffering issue in Mac Client in 10.6

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Neil Kodner wrote:

> When using up-arrow to retrieve the last executed command, or browse my
> history, each command becomes suffixed with a few lines worth of spaces.
> It's annoying having to backspace over this many spaces or manually move
> the cursor to perform edits.  I'm currently using R 2.10.10 GUI 1.30 on Mac
> OSX 10.6.
> 
> If I retrieve a command from my history using the history interface, the
> spaces are included.
> 

Check "cleanup history entries" in the preferences.


> I dont remember the root cause of this-I don't think it was brought upon by
> an upgrade.
> 
> Here are things I've done to try and troubleshoot:
> reset all of the settings I could find from within R
> delete my workspace
> delete any hidden files
> delete the command history file
> delete my preferences

Hm.. are you sure? The above setting is on by default so if you removed preferences it should be back to "on" ...

Cheers,
Simon


> completely remove/uninstall R
> upgrade from 32 to 64 bit R
> 
> somewhere along the lines I missed a preference or a hidden file.
> 
> Here's a screenshot showing the issue.  The screenshot was taken immediately
> after pressing up-arrow.
> 
> http://www.neilkodner.com/images/skitch/R_mystery-20091229-093157.jpg
> 
> Hopefully someone knows what to do about this.
> 
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