additional problems with online help (C-c C-v)

[Michael Herron]

Martin Maechler writes:
 > {CC'ed to ESS-help ;  it is of more general interest}
 > 
 >     MHe> Running ESS 5.1.13 with Splus 5.
 > 
 >     MHe> I think that there are still some problems with online help.  Suppose
 >     MHe> I do the following:
 > 
 >     MHe> 1. M-x S+5 to start Splus.
 >     MHe> 2. C-c C-v pnorm
 > 
 >     MHe> I then get a buffer that says:
 > 
 >     MHe> cat: illegal option -- c
 >     MHe> Usage: cat [-benrstuv] [-|File ...]
 > 
 > I think this is ONLY true, 
 > if you first did M-x S (instead of S+5) and THEN
 > called  C-c C-v pnorm  which gave you the above bug
 > and THEN did your above two things.

I'm afraid that this it not always the case.  I just did M-x S+5,
loaded a function, and then did C-c C-v runif and the illegal option
thing popped up again.  I had never run M-x S and this was the first
time I tried to use online help.  So, I killed the bad help buffer,
switched to the main S+5 buffer, and then tried C-c C-v runif again
and this time it worked.

The following seems to be the general pattern.  When I do C-c C-v
runif when editing a .q file, I get the illegal option message (not
sure if this is *always* true, but, if not, it is almost always true).
If I then kill the bad buffer and do C-c C-v from the *S+5* buffer,
things are fine.

Michael

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