Re: Mathematica 9: bug in merging cells
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- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 03:16:58 -0500 (EST)
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On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:09:37 AM UTC+1, Fred Simons wrote:
> When writing a larger program, I usually test the single steps in
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> separate cells, then merge these cells and localize the variables by
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> wrapping the contents of the merged cells in a Module. By doing so in
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> Mathematica 9, due to a bug in merging cells, I lost a lot of code. I
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> reported this bug to WRI two weeks ago. It is not yet repaired in the
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> new release, so I thought I would mention this annoying bug here as well.
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> This is an example (Mathematica 9 for Windows, I am not aware if this
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> happens for other systems too).
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> Construct two input cells, the first one containing
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> a=1;
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> (* comment *)
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> b=2;
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> and the second one
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> c=3;
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> When merging these two cells the contents ending with the comment is
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> shown in an orange rectangle, with the error message that there is a
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> RowBox with an invalid first argument. I cannot see any reason why this
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> merging of cells could not be undone with ctrl-Z, but it cannot and
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> therefore part of my code was gone.
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> In this simple example I could see how to fix it. Toggle ctrl-E for
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> seeing the box structure. Place a } just behind the RowBox with the
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> comment and a { behind the very first RowBox[, that is followed on the
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> next line with another RowBox.
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> During writing this message, I found that the same happens when you try
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> to copy and paste the first cell.
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> Fred Simons
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> Eindhoven University of Technology
Same problem with Mathematica 9.0.0 under Linux x86 (64 bit).
Rafael R. Pappalardo
Univ. of Seville (Spain)