[ESS] ess-display-help-on-object doesn't work in edit buffer

[Erik Iverson]

Have you sent any commands to the running *R* buffer with say, C-c C-n,
before
requesting help with C-c C-v? 

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:44:36 -0400, Stavros Macrakis
<macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> C-c C-v (ess-display-help-on-object) in an ESS-mode edit buffer gives
> the error message "No ESS process is associated with this buffer now".
> 
> This contradicts the documentation:
>      From within the ESS process buffer <<<or any ESS edit buffer>>>,
> typing C-c C-v (ess-display-help-on-object) will prompt you ....
> 
> I can reproduce this not only in an Emacs where I have a *R* buffer
> with a running process, but also in a fresh Emacs with no R processes
> at all.
> 
> C-c C-v works fine in the *R* buffer and in *help[R] (...)* buffers.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>            -s
> 
> 
> ESS 5.3.10
> R 2.8.1
> Emacs 22.3.1
> Windows XP
> 
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