[ESS] Problem getting help window to appear within Emacs

[Ali Tofigh]

i'm not on cygwin, but i did have a problem with the help buffer
myself not long ago. for me, the solution was to set the the pager
option to 'cat': option(pager="cat"). I don't know if that will help
you in your setup.

/ali

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Munawar Cheema <mcheema at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Ali, It is already set to nil.
> I didn't mention the first time I type ?ls I get a beep and only on the
> second and subsequent attempts do I get a pop up GUI window.
>
> Here is some gobbledegook I get out in the *ESS* buffer if it helps.
>
> Making Process...Buf *R*, Proc R, Prog C:/Program
> Files/R/R-2.14.2/bin/i386/Rterm.exe
>  Start File=nil, Args= --ess  .
> (ess-multi 2): waiting for process to start (before hook)*ddeclient-p:
> ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'(ess-multi 2): waiting for process after
> hook(R): inferior-ess-language-start=options(STERM='iESS',
> str.dendrogram.last ="'", editor='gnuclient.exe')
> *ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'(R): version (2.14.2)
> *ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'resetting completion to
> 'ess-R-complete-object-name*ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is
> 'R'*ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'*ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name
> is 'R'*ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL):
> language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil,
> comint..sender=comint-simple-send
> *ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'(ess-help: error-buffer
> '*help[R](ls)*' nodocs (1 1)
> *ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'
>
> Best Regards
> Munawar Cheema
>
>
>
>
>
> On 04/05/2012 15:50, Ali Tofigh wrote:
>> have you tried setting the variable ess-help-own-frame to nil?
>>
>> /ali
>>
>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Munawar Cheema <mcheema at btinternet.com> 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?  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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