[ESS] disable console help when "pausing"

[clark richards]

Thanks for the advice Alex,

I've commented out all my .emacs auto-complete references and will
start migrating/learning company-mode. So far, it has gotten rid of
the annoying "help dump", so that's a plus.

I couldn't find definitive documentation for how to configure compnay
for ESS (beyond this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49352699), but what
I have right now is simply

(setq ess-use-company t)

and it seems to work ok for completion within ESS/iESS buffers.

Any other tips on configuration are appreciated.

Thanks!
Clark

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:37 AM Alex Branham <alex.branham using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue 26 Feb 2019 at 10:22, clark richards via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently updated ESS on Linux Mint, using Emacs 25.3, to melpa
> > version 20190217.1421. It had probably been a year (or two) since I
> > had last updated ESS through melpa.
> >
> > Since the update, I have found that when I am working in an
> > interactive session that the default behavior if I "pause" for any
> > length of time while typing a function name is to bring up the help
> > page for whatever is the first hit of auto-complete on that function
> > name right into the R buffer. To get away from it, I have to jump to
> > the bottom and hit C-c C-c to get back to a prompt. I find it rather
> > annoying, and would prefer the behavior from before the update (sadly
> > I don't know what version I was previously running).
> >
> > I have dug through the docs, the changelogs, and googled all morning
> > but have not been able to find what controls this behavior or how I
> > can disable it (but keep the little pop-up windows which I love).
> >
> > Currently my .emacs has the following:
> >
> > (require 'ess-site)
> > (ess-set-style 'RStudio)
> > (define-key ess-r-mode-map "_" #'ess-insert-assign)
> > (define-key inferior-ess-r-mode-map "_" #'ess-insert-assign)
> >
> > and
> >
> > (require 'auto-complete)
> > (require 'auto-complete-config)
> > (ac-config-default)
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can offer, and thanks as always to the ESS devs.
>
> auto-complete is semi-unmaintained upstream. I'd try switching to
> company (and company-quickhelp) to see if this behavior goes away.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex