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

[Rodney Sparapani]

Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> So no light for dynamic html R help in emacs? R-help pages have very
> simple syntax, and
> this http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/ or even this
> http://www.gnu.org/s/w3/ might be quite enough.
>
> I've never tried any of them, but would imagine that putting
> ess-help.el functionality on top of them wouldn't be that much of
> elisp work.
>
> Vitalie.
>   
Hi Vitalie:

I've tried both.  Unless performance has increased dramatically,
they are annoyingly slow.  But, perhaps that is offset by the
simple nature of the R help files.  My reflex action was to
cringe at the thought, but maybe I'm still traumatized by my
previous attempts :o)

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