[ESS] launch help.start() in EWW browser

[Enrico Schumann]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2025, Naresh Gurbuxani via ESS-help writes:

> When running R in terminal emacs, what options are needed so that
> help.start() opens EWW browser?
>
> To find location of manuals, I run
>
> dir(paste0(Sys.getenv("R_HOME"), "/doc/manual", collapse = "/"))
>
> Now in emacs I can do M-x eww-open-file
>
> Thanks,
> Naresh

If it is acceptable to start a new Emacs, then you
could to this:

    help.start(browser = "emacs -f eww-browse")

Which works at least on my GNU/Linux machine (Xubuntu).
(But is, of course, in no way the "general solution" that
 Martin mentioned/hopes for.)


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