[ESS] problem with emacsclient

[A.J. Rossini]

no apologies - you provided a nice solution should others end up in the
same problem!

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, 02:34 William McCoy via ESS-help, <
ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 6/2/20 8:45 PM, William McCoy via ESS-help wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 6/2/20 2:13 PM, William McCoy via ESS-help wrote:
> >> I have another problem with my ESS configuration (ESS version
> >> 18.10.3snapshot).  My editor in R is set as 'emacsclient':
> >>
> >> !> options("editor")
> >>  $editor
> >>  [1] "emacsclient"
> >>
> >> However, when I execute help() or use C-c C-v, I get a new buffer
> >> with the following message:
> >>
> >> + emacsclient: file name or argument required
> >> Try 'emacsclient --help' for more information
> >>
> >> I do have the doc files installed and help() works fine when running
> >> R in a plain terminal.
> >>
> >> Can someone point out what seems to be wrong with my configuration?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Bill
> >
> > I should add that I have these options set in my R session.
> >
> >  > options()$help.pager
> >  [1] "emacsclient"
> >  > options()$editor
> >  [1] "emacsclient"
> >  > options()$pager
> >  [1] "emacsclient"
> >
> > And I have (server-start) at the end of my init.el file.
> >
> > The page(), fix(), and edit() functions do work properly, but I still
> > get the message listed in my original message when I use help(), ?, or
> > C-c C-v.
> >
> > Thanks for any advice you might have to help fix this problem.
> >
> > Bill
>
> Ok, I figured out the problem.  I had been looking for some sort of
> conflict in my init.el file that could be causing the problem --
> forgetting that I also had an emacs-custom.el file where I had done a
> couple of ESS customizations two years ago.  Right away I noticed that I
> had this line in the file:
>
> (custom-set-variables
> ...
>   '(ess-r-pager "emacsclient")
> ...
>
> Removing that line solves the problem entirely.  Now help(), ?, and C-c
> C-v all work as expected as well as page(), edit(), and fix().
>
> and now I have these options set automatically after I start an R session:
>
>  > options()$pager
>   [1] "cat"
>   > options()$editor
>   [1] "emacsclient"
>   > options()$help.pager
>   NULL
>
> Apparently these are as they should be.
>
> Sorry for all the noise!
>
> Bill
>
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