On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:32:51 +0200, "Mayeul KAUFFMANN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hope it is the good place for this (I discuss the question of the right >place below). I don't think so. >Most of the time, warnings are more than 1000 characters long and thus are >truncated. >Most of the time, this generates printouts with unbalanced parentheses. > >Intelligent text editors which do parentheses highlighting get very >confused with this. >After too many warnings, they give errors, and may even crash. As far as I know, this only affects one "intelligent" text editor. It's clearly an ESS/XEmacs bug, not a natural thing for an editor to do. >I could have sent this to the ESS or Xemacs devel list, but ESS & Xemacs' >attempt to find balanced parentheses accross many lines seems sensible, >and is needed with very long functions. Yes, it's sensible to try, but it is a bug that they don't fail gracefully. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
