[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 12.03; noise in echo area

[Vitalie Spinu]

>>>> Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org>
>>>> on Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:40:22 -0400 wrote:

  > with the svn head ess, when I type to the R prompt, I see read.table
  > help in the echo area flickering on and off all the time.
  > this is very inconvenient because the size of the echo buffer changes
  > all the time and the text I type jumps up and down.
  > (no, I am not typing a read.table expression at this time, although
  > there are quite a few of them in the *R* buffer before the point;
  > moreover, searching back for them with C-r makes the screen jump all the
  > time because of the help flickering on and off all the time)

So you don't mind the eldoc help, right?  If I understand correctly,
you have a blank line after the comint prompt but the help is still
shown because of the earlier (probably incomplete) invocations of
read.table? 

Actually it makes sense to limit the eldoc to the input line, if the
point is after process-mark. Added to my todo list.

I also have in mind to implement some sort of abbreviation of eldoc
string, depending on minibuffer width. Actually several levels of
it. Form aggressive (remove all the defaults, leave only args) to
no-abbreviation at all. So user can customize his eldoc "flickering".


Vitalie.