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

[Steven McKinney]

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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