[ESS] disable console help when "pausing"

[Shreyas Ragavan]

I'm facing the same problem of late, and I do not know what instigated the behavior. Using the company mode setting below has not solved my help dump, which is in fact highly annoying.  This is my setup (on Antergos / Mac OS)  :

(require 'ess)
(require 'ess-R-data-view)
(setq ess-describe-at-point-method nil)
(setq ess-switch-to-end-of-proc-buffer t)
(require 'ess-rutils)
(setq ess-rutils-keys +1)
(setq ess-eval-visibly 'nowait)
(setq ess-use-flymake nil)
(setq ess-use-company t)
(setq ess-roxy-hide-show-p t)

(use-package ess-view
  :ensure t
  :defer t
  :config
  (if (system-type-is-darwin)
      (setq ess-view--spreadsheet-program
            "/Applications/Tad.app/Contents/MacOS/Tad"
            )
    )
  (if (system-type-is-gnu)
      (setq ess-view--spreadsheet-program
            "tabview"
            )
    )
  )

- Shreyas

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, at 8:29 AM, clark richards via ESS-help wrote:
> 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
> 
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