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

[Vitalie S.]

Hi Peter,

It looks to me that you are talking about ess-eldoc functionality. 
By default ESS does not have this feature activated. You need to have something
like

(require 'ess-eldoc)

in your emacs.

Just remove that line, and hopefully your problem will be solved.

Cheers,
Vitalie.

"Peter Geelan-Small" <peter.geelan-small at sydney.edu.au> writes:
> 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
>
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> 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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