[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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