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

[Vitalie Spinu]

This was never a problem for me as usually work on relatively small
screens and I (almost) always set split-*-threshold variables such that
I have at most 2 windows per frame.

This "wonderful" behavior is the default right now. So people who don't
like it, please complain now. 

   Vitalie

 >> Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com>
 >> on Fri, 6 Sep 2013 20:35:40 -0700 wrote:

 > 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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