[ESS] Cannot disable args from showing in minibuffer

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Wed May 16 09:53:53 CEST 2012


Instead of disabling the eldoc try

(setq ess-eldoc-abbreviation-style 'aggressive)

This will try to intelligently abbreviate the doc string and also
truncate it to fit into one line minibuffer.

If you don't want to abbreviate but only truncate do:

(setq eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p nil)

See the docs of these variables for more.

Cheers, 
Vitalie.

>>>> David <davaren1 at yahoo.com>
>>>> on Wed, 16 May 2012 00:24:15 -0700 (PDT) wrote:

  > Thank you for your response.  I read the new features section but I didn't
  > realize I needed to add "nil".  I am only an ESS novice but I got into the habit
  > of disabling the args because my functions would expand the minibuffer to half
  > the window size to show my 20 or so args.  It is just a personal preference for
  > disabling it.

  > Thanks again.

  > ________________________________
  >  From: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
  > To: David <davaren1 at yahoo.com> 
  > Cc: "ess-help at r-project.org" <ess-help at r-project.org> 
  > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:01 AM
  > Subject: Re: [ESS] Cannot disable args from showing in minibuffer

  > A general advice, if something went unexpected in a new version, read
  > the new features section. All this stuff is documented there. Eldoc was
  > redesigned and moved into the core. You can deactivate it by customizing
  > ess-use-eldoc or just by:

  > (setq ess-use-eldoc nil)

  > But, why would you like to disable it in the first place?

>>>> David <davaren1 at yahoo.com>
>>>> on Tue, 15 May 2012 20:47:40 -0700 (PDT) wrote:

  >   > Dear List,

  >   > I have used Dr. Goulet's Emacs distribution with great success over the years. Dr. Goulet latest distribution is version 23.4 which includes ESS12.04. 

  >   > In the past I had been commenting out (require 'ess-eldoc) in Dr. Goulet's
  >   > default.el file to disable the args from showing in the minibuffer. I now
  >   > have the problem of the args showing up. The args were only disabled when
  >   > Iswitchedback to ESS-5.14. Is it possible there is a problem with
  >   > ESS 12? I still cannot disable the args using the latest ESS-SVN.

  >   > I communicated with Dr. Goulet but he has no idea what the problem could be. My session info is as follows:

  >   > R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
  >   > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

  >   > Thank you for any help.

  >   > D. Arenas
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