[ESS] Problem getting help window to appear within Emacs

Munawar Cheema mcheema at btinternet.com
Fri May 4 17:52:50 CEST 2012


Vitalie,
C-c C-v gives me the same result.  It is definitely not an emacs frame
and looks a lot like a window you would get from the default RGUI.

Regards
Munawar


On 04/05/2012 16:40, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>>>>> 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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