[ESS] Help with Help when using ess-remote
A.J. Rossini
blindglobe at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 10:43:14 CEST 2005
The problem is that shell is a comint buffer which isn't fully
modified for S; therefore help is not intercepted.
There might be a way to modify the shell call to include the
intercept. We'll have to check.
best,
-tony
On 6/25/05, Seth Falcon <sethfalcon at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using ESS with an R running on a remote system by doing the
> following:
>
> 1. M-x shell
> 2. ssh MY_REMOTE_SYSTEM
> 3. R
> 4. M-x ess-remote
>
> This works as desired, but if I do C-c C-v to get help on something,
> the remote R process displays it in the R process buffer and tries to
> use a pager and I get almost unreadable results.
>
> When I'm using a local R, I have ESS configured to pop-up a new frame
> with the help. This is the behavior I want. Is it possible to have
> help from a remote R work this way? Is there a better way to initiate
> a remote R session?
>
> Thanks,
>
> + seth
>
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best,
-tony
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
A.J. Rossini
blindglobe at gmail.com
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