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Re: Mathematica 9: bug in merging cells
Posted:
Dec 5, 2012 3:10 AM
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I'm seeing exactly the same cell-merge bug in Mathematica 9 under OS X
(10.8.2).
It has nothing to do with the (* comment *) per se. Exactly the same
thing happens if in the first cell you replace the comment line with a
blank line.
On the other hand, I don't get any error with copy-and-paste, whether
with the (* comment *) or with just a blank line there.
On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:14 AM, Fred Simons <f.h.simons@tue.nl> wrote:
> When writing a larger program, I usually test the single steps in
> separate cells, then merge these cells and localize the variables by
> wrapping the contents of the merged cells in a Module. By doing so in
> Mathematica 9, due to a bug in merging cells, I lost a lot of code. I
> reported this bug to WRI two weeks ago. It is not yet repaired in the
> new release, so I thought I would mention this annoying bug here as
well.
>
> This is an example (Mathematica 9 for Windows, I am not aware if this
> happens for other systems too).
>
> Construct two input cells, the first one containing
>
> a=1;
> (* comment *)
> b=2;
>
> and the second one
>
> c=3;
>
> When merging these two cells the contents ending with the comment is
> shown in an orange rectangle, with the error message that there is a
> RowBox with an invalid first argument. I cannot see any reason why
this
> merging of cells could not be undone with ctrl-Z, but it cannot and
> therefore part of my code was gone.
>
> In this simple example I could see how to fix it. Toggle ctrl-E for
> seeing the box structure. Place a } just behind the RowBox with the
> comment and a { behind the very first RowBox[, that is followed on
the
> next line with another RowBox.
>
> During writing this message, I found that the same happens when you
try
> to copy and paste the first cell.
>
> Fred Simons
> Eindhoven University of Technology
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