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

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Thu Jun 23 09:12:48 CEST 2005


>>>>> "StEgl" == Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:19:36 +0100 writes:

    StEgl> 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.

    StEgl> what is the definition of a bogus help buffer?

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

E.g., the one you get from 

   ?blabla    		{in R}
or
   C-c C-v blabla	{in R or S-plus}

{when




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