[ESS] problems with help in the development version

[Ross Boylan]

On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 20:30 -0700, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> Sorry, cannot reproduce. 
You're not the only one.  Now I can't reproduce.

Something very weird seems to be going on; this is the second issue I've
had with emacs/ess that has simply vanished after awhile (the first was
that it didn't seem to load at all).

To answer your other questions:

> Which version of ESS is this?
git from a few days ago, master branch.  git log -1 says
commit 48cd5bd718127d458818fa8d44bf43436af31092
Merge: 800ab28 97a5fdc
Author: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 6 22:07:40 2013 -0700

    Merge branch 'trunk'
    
    Conflicts:
        lisp/ess-developer.el

Is that the right way to find the current head?  still new to git.



>  Which version of
> R?
2.15.1

Emacs 23.4.1


> Could you please M-x toggle-debug-on-error first?
> 
Now no error.  There is no error if I don't toggle first, and repeat
exactly the steps I did before.

The error I was getting was reproducible; I launched several new emacs
while I was testing.

???
Ross

>  >>> Ross Boylan on Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:18:02 -0700 wrote:
> 
>  > On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 12:27 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
>  >> After doing 
>  >> help.search("memory")
>  >> any effort to get help, e.g.,
>  >> ?memory.size
>  >> fails with "wrong number of arguments: switch-to-buffer, 3
>  >> 
>  >> ?foo works before the help.search().
>  >> 
>  >> Ross Boylan
>  >> 
>  > I got the same behavior when I did
>  > ?save.image
> 
>  > in a new run, i.e., without having asked for help.search().
>  > So maybe it's the "." that's the problem.  Is that a known issue?
> 
>  > ?lm also produced the error after the help.search() request, so it is
>  > not only "." commands that are affected once the problem kicks in.
> 
>  > Ross
> 
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