[ESS] ?foo doesn't work in development [sometimes]

Ross Boylan ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Fri Oct 4 05:10:53 CEST 2013


On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 20:01 -0700, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> Do you use several ESS versions alternatively? 
Only in that  I update my ESS from git from time to time.
> Do you compile? 
I think the answer is no.  That is, I don't do any kind of build on the
source tree.  Mostly I notice this because I can't use the info docs.

> It is
> indeed strange that ESS behaves so unreliably for you recently.
> 
>  >>> Ross Boylan on Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:44:10 -0700 wrote:
> 
>  > Fantastic: now help seems to work OK even if I start by asking for ?']'
>  > and the entire list of commands I asked for help on before.
> 
> Not ?']' but ?[, I guess. No need for quotes; ESS automatically puts
> those.
> 
Thanks for the tip.
>    Vitalie



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