[ESS] Pop-up help in minibuffer - repeat request

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi Peter,

This doesn't really help you either, but I've never actually
experienced this behavior before.

ESS never gives me help for a function/whatever unless I ask for it
(and I don't really know how to ask for it, so I never do ;-).

While it's possible, I'd be surprised if this is a peculiarity of my
setup since my ESS config is rather vanilla. Is there maybe some auto
help setting you turned on?

-steve

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Peter Geelan-Small
<peter.geelan-small at sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> G'day, Steven and the list,
>
> Unfortunately, this suggestion didn't do the trick. Can anyone come up
> with an alternative, please?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven McKinney [mailto:smckinney at bccrc.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, 20 November 2010 14:06
> To: Peter Geelan-Small; ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: Pop-up help in minibuffer - repeat request
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> At the risk of being wrong, but at least getting discussion going,
> I think this behaviour is controlled by the "ess-r-args-electric-paren"
> variable.
>
> If you put
>
> (setq ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)
>
> in your .emacs file, after the line where you
> load or require ess, then quit emacs and restart emacs,
> does the function help in the minibuffer stop?
>
>
> Steven McKinney
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
>> Peter Geelan-Small
>> Sent: November-19-10 4:33 PM
>> To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [ESS] Pop-up help in minibuffer - repeat request
>>
>> G'day, ESS list.
>>
>> I haven't had an answer to this query, but I would really like one!
> It's not an idle personal
>> preference. I've found exchanges in the list about the benefits of
> this feature but I do have a reason
>> for wanting to be able to disable it.
>>
>> When I'm scrolling through a buffer with R code in it, by clicking in
> the scroll bar, and get to the
>> point where I want to be, the text in the window suddenly jumps
> through a screen or so and takes me
>> away from where I wanted to be. The reason seems to be that ESS has
> found a function it wants to give
>> me help on but that I'm not interested in! I assume it's because the
> cursor somehow trails behind and
>> lands on some function somewhere when I stop scrolling. This is very
> inconvenient behaviour.
>>
>> I don't mind if the reply to this is private, but I really do think if
> a genuine question is posted to
>> the list (any list, for that matter), there should be a reply of some
> sort. If someone is still
>> working on an answer, my apologies!
>>
>> Looking forward to some feedback,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Peter
> Geelan-Small
>> Sent: Wed 17/11/2010 3:07 PM
>> To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [ESS] Pop-up help in minibuffer
>>
>>
>>
>> G'day, ESS list.
>>
>> When you have the cursor on an R function name in a (Emacs) buffer,
> you get a pop-up of the skeleton
>> of the function in the minibuffer, showing its arguments. I'd like to
> turn this feature off, but can't
>> find out how to in either the ESS or Emacs manuals. Could someone
> point me in the right direction,
>> please?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
>>
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