So my app is all happy, and this datatable is pretty nice and its editor works create, with bubbles.
Then I add the "require" to get datatable-select and datatable-buttons, and everything is ok.
Then finally I add "buttons: [ {extend: 'create', editor: simpleEditor} ] " to the definition of my datatable.
For some reason, in its initialization, the datatable-buttons module seem to use jQuery.extend on a data-structure that may be referring to itself (or a part of itself), which sends jQuery.extend into an infinite recursion until 
Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
...
simpleEditor is built with new $.fn.dataTable.Editor( { ... } ).
and the buttons: [ {extend: 'create', editor: simpleEditor}] refers to it - so perhaps there is a weird self-reference loop happening.
but this seems to be exactly like every other datatable with button...
So, I am at a loss...
Has anyone encountered such conditions and found the root cause and fixed it?
I've upgraded to jQuery 1.12.4, latest datatable-select and datatable-buttons. I haven't upgraded Editor in a little more than a year.
thank you!