(PR#11537) help (using ?) does not handle trailing whitespace
By whitespace, I mean either a space or tab (preceding the newline). I'm using ESS: ess-version's value is "5.3.6" GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-08-28 on terranova, modified by Debian I have the following in my .emacs: (load "ess-5.3.6/lisp/ess-site") (setq ess-tab-always-indent nil) (setq ess-fancy-comments nil) I have not edited ess-site.el On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
We don't know how to reproduce this: 'whitespace' is not specific enough. R's tokenizer breaks input at spaces, so a space would never be part of that expression. And tabs don't even get to the parser in interactive use, and you cannot mean a newline. So exactly what do you mean by 'whitespace'? The character in your email as received here is an ASCII space, and that is used to end the token on all my systems. That's not to say that you didn't type something else that looks like a space (e.g. a nbspace) since email systems are fickle. None of my guesses worked, so we need precise reproduction instructions. On Thu, 29 May 2008, rocket at google.com wrote:
?agrep
Results in:
No documentation for 'agrep ' in specified packages and libraries:
you could try 'help.search("agrep ")'
There is white space after agrep, that ? doesn't ignore.
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Version:
platform = i486-pc-linux-gnu
arch = i486
os = linux-gnu
system = i486, linux-gnu
status =
major = 2
minor = 7.0
year = 2008
month = 04
day = 22
svn rev = 45424
language = R
version.string = R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
Locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US;LC_PAPER=en_US;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
Search Path:
.GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices,
package:utils, package:datasets, package:showStructure, package:Rcode,
package:splus2R, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
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