[ESS] ambiguous help pages

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

This is awesome to hear. This issue has been a major source of
irritation over the last couple of years.

Thanks a lot for working on this.

Best,
Kasper

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Murat Tasan <mmuurr at gmail.com> wrote:
> awesome... just svn-ed to the dev version, and the C-c C-v fix works great.
> thanks much!
>
> -m
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Murat,
>>
>> I am also using menu.graphics = FALSE and indeed, on multiple help
>> locations I am experiencing a freeze, as you do.
>>
>> The good news is that this issue was fixed in ESS-dev. C-c C-v (or newer
>> C-c C-d C-d) will pop an IDO menu of possible locations. Unfortunately
>> it doesn't work for ?foo as yet.
>>
>>     Vitalie
>>
>> BTW: ess-apropos are now on C-c C-d C-a. And other, doc related, commands
>> are also on C-c C-d (ess-doc-map).
>>
>>   >> Murat Tasan <mmuurr at gmail.com>
>>   >> on Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:34:19 -0500 wrote:
>>
>>   > hi all - i tried searching for any existing solution, but found none,
>> so
>>   > here goes...
>>
>>   > i'm running emacs in terminal-only mode (i.e. no X11), and have
>> switched
>>   > menu.graphics to FALSE to prevent any confusion.
>>   > when looking for a help page that is package-ambiguous, i've been
>> running
>>   > into prompt problems:
>>
>>   > imagine there are multiple help pages for "mapply" (if you install
>>   > BiocGenerics, this is indeed the case):
>>
>>   >> ?mapply
>>
>>   > emacs freezes.
>>   > i can un-freeze with a quick C-g, and a buffer search shows that a
>> *help*
>>   > page was indeed created in a new buffer, but the buffer was never
>> pushed to
>>   > the current emacs display (i.e. never shown in any existing or new
>> emacs
>>   > window), so control was never given to this buffer.
>>   > problem is, even if control is manually given, this buffer only shows
>> the
>>   > menu option to disambiguate the two "mapply" help pages... but there's
>> no
>>   > prompt or keyboard input reading in this menu buffer, so to select the
>>   > option, i have to switch back over to the existing *R* buffer.
>>   > at this point, i can select from the menu option, but if i do select
>> either
>>   > version of the help page, that page is now scrolled in the *R* buffer,
>>   > rather than being displayed in the standard *help* buffer.
>>
>>   > the same problem exists with the C-c C-v method of selecting help
>> pages.
>>
>>   > the only way around this behavior i've seen so far is as so:
>>   > (1) C-c h --> help-apropos
>>   > (2) search for "mapply"
>>   > (3) get the long apropos hit page in a new buffer
>>   > (4) cursor/scroll down to the appropriate entry (this list could be
>> quite
>>   > large, however)
>>   > (5) selecting that entry properly opens the chosen help page in a
>> *help*
>>   > buffer.
>>
>>   > i'm guessing others have experienced the same issue (especially anyone
>>   > using Bioconductor packages)... any tips on how to get around this
>>   > annoyance?
>>
>>   > cheers,
>>
>>   > -m
>>
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