I can't reproduce it with the latest ESS from melpa. Can you give reproduction steps starting with
emacs -q ? --Ista On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:58 AM, Patrick Connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > For a long time I used to be able to use > > ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer > > to create a buffer that could be used to edit the designated function > from anywhere on the search path to make a local version. > > Starting at about ess-15.x, only the first 5 or so lines of code is > made available which I took to be a bug that would be fixed. However, > I was mistaken. I installed ess-17.11 and it's still the same. Being > a bear with only a small brain, I can't imagine what use that would be > if it's what is intended. > > Could it be that there is an additional setting that allows all of the > function (including comments) to be dumped into that buffer? Perhaps, > more difficult to track down, I have something else in my ~/.emacs > file that is incompatible. > > TIA for suggestions. > > -- > ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. > ___ Patrick Connolly > {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas > _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events > (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people > (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt > > ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help