[ESS] can I make R help buffers automatically active and maximised?

[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:16:39 -0500,
"Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> I have a follow up.

> In my site-start, I have commands that start R in a separate frame,
> and also the help display launches in its own frame.  I think this is
> what you are requesting.  Every time you run a help command, it gets
> sent to this same frame.  For me, the only problem is that the frame
> opens as a very small thing, about 10 lines, and I wish it would just
> take a full screen's height. I'm working on a dual monitor system,
> don't care to have all emacs buffers piled up on top of each other...


Have a look at:

,-----[ C-h v ess-help-frame-alist RET ]
| ess-help-frame-alist is a variable defined in `ess-cust.el'.
| Its value is shown below.
| 
| Documentation:
| *Alist of frame parameters used to create help frames.
| This defaults to `special-display-frame-alist' and is used only when
| the variable `ess-help-own-frame' is non-nil.
| 
| You can customize this variable or set it in your initialization file.
| 
| Value: 
| ((height . 50)
|  (width . 90)
|  (unsplittable . t)
|  (tool-bar-lines . 0)
|  (menu-bar-lines . 0)
|  (font . "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-11")
|  (top . 0)
|  (left . 0)
|  (foreground-color . "wheat")
|  (background-color . "gray25"))
| 
| [back]
`-----

Hope it helps,

-- 
Seb