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

[Randy Lai]

I have made a youtube video to explain the bug.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Qtjq7ratE


On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Robert J Goedman <goedman at icloud.com> wrote:

> Hi Simon and Randy,
> 
> Randy, what do you mean with 'I have a history'? How did you create your example? I can't reproduce the problem (but I'm on R-devel and compile everything locally, including R.app). 
> 
> That would indeed be pretty serious as most of my source files contain comments as in your example.
> 
> Simon, I'm not 100% sure either (hé, it was 10 years ago!), but I think we decided to stay as close as possible to the behavior of the Carbon version of R.app, although I believe I opted for removing comment-only lines. Of course, that's just a decision. And different from Randy's example just now.
> 
> Rob J. Goedman
> goedman at icloud.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 5, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Randy Lai <randy.cs.lai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I would rather think that it is a bug. It happens when "clean up history entries" is on but “strip comment” is off.
>> 
>> If I have a history of two lines:
>> # this is a comment
>> a = 100
>> 
>> the current version of GUI would returns
>> this is a comment
>> a = 100
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 5, 2013, at 5:49 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm CCig Rob since he designed the history code so he may comment on whether it's by design or not. I dimly remember that this was intended, but I'm not 100% sure.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Simon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>>> From: Randy Lai <randy.cs.lai at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] a bug in R Mac GUI
>>>> Date: November 2, 2013 at 12:55:51 AM EDT
>>>> To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
>>>> 
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>> 
>>>> I have fixed a bug in R Mac GUI that the comment symbol # is trimmed when cleanup history entries is checked.
>>>> This only works for R 3.0.x for Mac.
>>>> 
>>>> A complied version can be found in the following link.
>>>> 
>>>> the fix: https://github.com/randy3k/R-Mac-GUI/commit/d8d387236b208d49b3cda9a3d82ca72e70b40110
>>>> the binary: https://github.com/randy3k/R-Mac-GUI/releases
>>>> 
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