[ESS] Problem getting help window to appear within Emacs

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Fri May 4 17:40:51 CEST 2012


>>>> Munawar Cheema <mcheema at btinternet.com>
>>>> on Fri, 4 May 2012 11:18:07 +0100 wrote:

  > I am struggling to figure out why I can't get my help window in an emacs
  > frame/window.  I have used earlier versions of ESS and R without any
  > trouble but just came back after a hiatus and embarrassingly can't
  > figure out this seemingly trivial problem.

  > I first start emacs -Q
  > then Eval: (require 'ess-site)
  > M-x R
  > After this I then enter a command such as ?ls or help(ls) will pop up a
  > window in the Window Manager and not in emacs.  How can I get the window
  > to appear in emacs instead?  

Is it an emacs window (i.e. frame), or what window is that?  C-c C-v
also gives the same result, right?

  > I have tried searching for an answer without luck so I am asking the
  > list.
  > Thanks in advance
  > Munawar Cheema

  > Version Information
  > OS: Windows 7 64-bit with  Cygwin
  > ESS 12.04 and R 2.14.2
  > GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
  >  of 2012-02-04 on MARVIN

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