[ESS] showing function syntax

[A.J. Rossini]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Jannis <bt_jannis at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>
>> I vaguely remember that ESS has the functionality to show the syntax of a R
>> function (i.e. all the options with their defaults in the parantheses (e.g.
>> for example plot(x,y,xlim,......)) in some buffer while typing the name of
>> that function.
>
> You may be thinking of ess-display-help-on-object which is bound to
> C-c C-v by default.
>
>> Is this correct? If yes, do I have to activate this feature? I recently
>> updated emacs and ESS and no I do not have this feature anymore. And I am
>> quite sure that it worked before....Or do I mistake this with rkward?

I'm not sure how it's activated, I know that Debian does it by default.

Doug - I'm guessing this is a request for the "intellisense"
technology, i.e. using the minibuffer to display the argument list for
the function so you get it right when filling it in, not the help page
display.

best,
-tony

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