[ESS-bugs] Emacs hangs when searched for help topic that appears in more than one packages

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 02/ 3/10 04:28 PM, Yang Zhao (赵扬) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The stripplot function has a help page in both "graphics" and "lattice"
> package in R 2.9.1. When I run ?stripplot in R, under a terminal it will
> print:
>
> Help on topic 'stripplot' was found in the following packages:
>
>   Package               Library
>   lattice               /usr/lib/R/library
>   graphics              /usr/lib64/R/library
>
> Choose one
>
> 1: Common Bivariate Trellis Plots {lattice}
> 2: Defunct Functions in Package graphics {graphics}
>
> Selection:
>
> And wait for input. If I do this in emacs / ess, emacs hangs and the cursor
> become "wait". To proceed I have to kill emacs.
>
> Thanks,
> Yang
>   
Hi Yang:

I think this is a known bug. I'm guessing that the prompt has been
changed from > to
Selection: which has confused ESS.

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