Thanks for Prof. Ripley explaining this to me. I totally agree with you that I can avoid this problem if I am debugging carefully enough. But it would be very convenient to have this feature for the newbies like me. I will submit this as a feature request.
Feng On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > You do not mean the "enter" key: it is not that which exits the browser but > rather a newline (which can be entered via 'return', and in other ways). > > This is part of the parser, and there is no way to turn it off. > > Somehow other experienced R users have never encountered this. But if you > wish you could submit this as a 'wishlist' request to R-bugs, and if enough > users support it (and especially if someone submits a high-quality patch to > do this), it might be added in a future release. > > > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Feng Li wrote: > > Dear R, >> >> How can I disable using "enter" key to exit the browser() in debug mode? I >> would love to have this option because it is so annoying to jump out of >> the >> debugging mode unexpectedly when I don't want to. I guess some of us have >> encouraged at least one of these situations, >> >> 1, Accidentally pressed the enter key within the browser. >> >> 2, Copy and paste a piece of debugging code containing empty lines to the >> prompt within the debugging mode. >> >> 3, If I paste a piece of code to the prompt to debug as follows, it will >> eventually jump out before I can do anything. >> >> ####### copy starting from this line ############## >> test <- function() >> { >> x<- 5 >> browser() >> y<-4 >> } >> >> test() >> >> ######## end of copy at this line ################ >> >> >> Any suggestions are most welcome! >> >> Feng >> >> -- >> Feng Li >> Department of Statistics >> Stockholm University >> 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden >> http://feng.li/ >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- Feng Li Department of Statistics Stockholm University 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden http://feng.li/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.