[R-SIG-Mac] ESC key and STOP button not working in R 2.14.1

[R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>]

On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:41 PM, bugreport19621012 at fastmail.fm wrote:

> 
> The most recent email on this appears to be https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2012-January/008967.html
> 
> which says, "the most recent GUI is back to the old behavior."
> 
> Does this refer to some more recent GUI than the following?

Yes (note that message is after the build date you give) - you could build the new GUI yourself tonight, but R 2.14.2 is going out to CRAN tomorrow so I'd just wait for that. 

Michael

> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.14.1
>> 
> 
> By "the old behavior" does Simon Urbanek mean mean what R used to to from time immemorial, i.e., that hitting ESC would get me out of the current command line, whether I have hit ENTER or not?
> 
> To reproduce the problem:
> 
> Start at R prompt on a Mac
> 
> type: rnorm(100000000000000000) and do not hit enter.
> 
> Hit ESC.
> 
> I do not get the R prompt. I do not get out of the current command.
> 
> Click with the mouse on the STOP button.
> 
> I do not get the R prompt. I do not get out of the current command.
> 
> How can I get R to behave as it used to behave, with respect to ESC and the STOP key?
> 
> Jacob Wegelin
> 
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