Message-ID: <x2r8gid3z6.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2002-08-28T22:15:57Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: fix(fix)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0208281632340.14567-100000@ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu>
Roger Koenker <roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu> writes:
> About 2 percent of the time I use fix() to edit a function that is
> sitting in .RData I get the response:
In the workspace, you mean? You can't edit things in .RData directly.
> > fix(qss)
> Error in edit(name, file, editor) : problem with running editor vi
>
> when I try to close the editing session. I used to think that these
> were always cases where there was some syntactical error with the
> edited file, but this is not the case. I realize that one surefire
> way to avoid this problem is to stop using fix()...but if there are
> other suggestions, I would be happy to hear them.
>
> This is solaris 2.8, R1.5.0 with vi as the editor.
The error message means that the editor returned a non-zero error
code, so you just have to make it stop doing that... Not sure why that
would happen with vi/Sol8 (out of disk space? file locked? or just vi
returning random value?)
You could kill the problem by having your own editor script, something
like
#!/bin/sh
vi $*
true
and then use that for your editor. However, you'ld also be killing off
indications of real system problems...
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