R devel - Apr 1999 - submission method "none" of bug.report() -- interaction with ESS ?

>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler
<maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
>>>>> "FrL" == Friedrich Leisch
<Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
    FrL> This is not only a problem of bug.report(), but of providing
    FrL> a working editor in ESS ... because the same happens if you
    FrL> say edit(lm) or of whatever object you want.

    MM> but nobody sane using ESS would say
    MM>     edit(..)
    MM> 	       ;-)

Well, we hope not.  I guess we should scan for bug.report and edit,
and do the appropriate thing :-).

(for edit, "dump-object to buffer", for bugreport, dump everything
including mail, x-rated pictures, etc, into a file and send it to
r-bugs, until it's fixed in R -- who says you can't have the same kind
of fun with unix that the windows users had with melissa? :-) 

-- but seriously, what should the proper response be?  

R for unix then ought to have an --ess flag, the way Windows does, to
prevent such occurrences, and we can handle things appropriately (and
better!) in ESS.

best,
-tony

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> R for unix then ought to have an --ess flag, the way Windows does, to
> prevent such occurrences, and we can handle things appropriately (and
> better!) in ESS.
At present it does nothing visible. The best idea is I think for ESS to
set an environment variable which the R code can check for. As in

if(getenv("R_UNDER_ESS")) options(editor="gnuclient")


(Martin: you can have gnuclient on Solaris, I believe.)

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