[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 5.2.7; cannot get help for contour()

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "StEgl" == Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:48:14 +0100 writes:

    StEgl> Sebastian Luque writes:
    >> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:36:50 +0100,
    >> Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
    >> >
    >> > I would suggest deleting all customization of comint variables in your
    >> > .emacs - and seeing if that works.  i.e. remove
    >> >
    >> >> setq comint-output-filter-functions
    >> 
    >> Ok, I had a chance to go over this tonight and found that
    >> ess-help-kill-bogus-buffers was causing my problems. I had it set to t at
    >> some point just to try. Once I removed this customization (the variable is
    >> nil by default), help works normally.

    StEgl> Thanks for fixing this.  I had a quick look at how the function
    StEgl> ess-help-bogus-buffer-p is deciding contour is bogus - but couldn't
    StEgl> see anything obvious - but I didn't step through the code.  Any one
    StEgl> else know whether there is something to fix here?

There must be.  Since we can reproduce Sebastian's problem now
by (setq ess-help-kill-bogus-buffers t) , we have two things going wrong :

1) contour's help buffer is considered bogous  {and Stephen was
					        trying to debug this}

2) The (mini buffer) message for such a "bogous" buffer is

      "no documentation"
  
   which is wrong and leading users to wrong conclusions.


Martin