"h" in help windows appears in other window

Stephen Eglen stephen at anc.ed.ac.uk
Thu May 6 14:00:58 CEST 2004


 > In ess5.1.24,  hitting the "h" key and a function name in a help 
 > window opened the help() page
 > in that window.
 > 
 > Now, in ess5.2.0, the help page is opened in the *other* window, 
 > obscuring the R session.
 > 
 > I don't like this new behaviour.  How do I change it back to the old way?

Apologies, I introduced that bug when incorporating the
ess-help-own-frame behaviour.  To get the old behaviour, could you try
the following patch to ess-help.el (email me if you want the whole file)?

Please test and let me know if it works.

Thanks, Stephen



*** /tmp/ess-help.el.~5.21~	Thu May  6 13:00:18 2004
--- /tmp/ess-help.el	Thu May  6 13:00:18 2004
***************
*** 196,202 ****
  		     'ess-help-own-frame
  		   special-display-function)))
  	    (if (eq curr-win-mode 'ess-help-mode)
! 		(pop-to-buffer tbuffer)
  	      (ess-display-temp-buffer tbuffer)))
  	  (if curr-help-syntax-table
  	      (set-syntax-table curr-help-syntax-table))
--- 196,204 ----
  		     'ess-help-own-frame
  		   special-display-function)))
  	    (if (eq curr-win-mode 'ess-help-mode)
! 		(if ess-help-own-frame
! 		    (pop-to-buffer tbuffer)
! 		  (switch-to-buffer tbuffer))
  	      (ess-display-temp-buffer tbuffer)))
  	  (if curr-help-syntax-table
  	      (set-syntax-table curr-help-syntax-table))




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