[ESS] library(help=foo)

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Aug 24 22:40:33 CEST 2012


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>   >> Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org>
>   >> on Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:48:10 -0400 wrote:
>
>   > cool, thanks.
>   > may I suggest renaming it to ess-display-library-index?
>   > I was looking using apropos for "ess.*library"...

well,  but it's the help index for a *package*,  ...
and , BTW,
library(help = <foo>)   is preferably written as
help(package = <foo>)

so, really, we should use *package*  even though  Sam thought of "library"..
Martin
>
> Sure, makes sense.
>
>   > also, I suggest you bind it to something in the regular ess too.
>   > e.g., "C-c i" or "C-c l" or whatever.
>
> There are, and will be plenty, of new useful commands and binding them
> to some key is not feasible. C-c h should work for most of the
> cases. Also a group key for documentation related commands would be good
> (like slime's C-c C-d). Unfortunately C-c C-d is already bound in ESS.
>
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