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

Stephen Eglen S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk
Wed Jun 22 19:19:36 CEST 2005


hi martin,
 > 
 >     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.

what is the definition of a bogus help buffer?

I can volunteer to look at this, once I know what the definiton of a
bogus help buffer is!


Stephen




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