[ESS] Make ess-help reuse one and only one buffer?

[Joshua Wiley]

This sounds wonderful!  At least for me, the workflow is often:

running commands
something wrong/uncertain
look up help
go back to commands (leaving help up for reference)
things get fixed and keep typing/running commands
something wrong/uncertain
look up help --- now my windows start getting split
....
eventually close some

Having an easy option would make life fantastic! :)



On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is the second time in past 3 months that somebody asks for this
> feature. I have added ess-help-reuse-window variable. If t (the
> default), ess will reuse the help window. Would be nice if you could
> check if the current behavior (SVN) is what you want.
>
> Please object now if you think this is not a good default.
>
>    Vitalie
>
>
>  >> "Poile, Christopher" <poile at edwards.usask.ca>
>  >> on Fri, 6 Sep 2013 23:50:32 +0000 wrote:
>
>  > Hello everyone,
>  > I have tried a number of different ways to get ESS help buffers to display in
>  > only one window (the bottom right window, in this case). But it seems that the
>  > solutions on Stack Overflow only affect the behavior of regular emacs help
>  > windows.
>  > E.g., http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1381794/too-many-split-screens-opening-in-emacs
>
>  > Using 'dedicated.el' and other dedicated window tricks only work some of the
>  > time, and it's a pain to use if you are switching your main editing buffer from
>  > ESS[R] to the parent Orgmode file, jump to a different Org branch and reenter
>  > ESS[R] mode.
>
>  > And the ESS help options seem to be focused on frames (eg, ess-help-own-frame).
>
>  > Has anyone found a way to make ESS help windows reuse the same window?
>
>  > Thanks for the help,
>  > Chris.
>
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