[ESS] Feature Idea: open help in browser when viewing it in an emacs buffer

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Tue Nov 1 18:04:15 CET 2011


Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> 
> IDO is part of emacs, I am convinced that ESS should take advantage of
> it and use it whenever present. Being an unique feature of emacs this
> has the potential of bringing more users to ESS. If there are people
> interested I can look into refactoring ess completion mechanism a bit
> to use IDO.
> 

Ok, but IDO may not be available for everyone.  So you need to detect
IDO with something like (require 'IDO) or (featurep 'IDO) and/or
make it configurable so that ESS completion still works otherwise
(Welcome to the joys of supporting ESS :o).

Rodney



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