[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 13.09 [svn: 5778 (2013-09-27)]; R-object-tooltip not working (again)

[Stefano Conti]

Dear Rodney and Vitalie,

Many thanks to you both for your replies.

I didn't know that R-objects-tooltip had effectively been superseded by
ess-describe-object-at-point, which I can confirm to work on my system
like described and would be most happy to use from now on.

Sincere thanks again for your support and work on ESS; all the best,

--
Stefano

On 05/10/13 22:26, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> 
> That is right, Rodney. ess-R-object-tooltip is a predecessor of the
> built in ess-describe-object-at-point, which is bound to C-c C-d
> C-e. This is a cycling command,  press C-e to cycle through
> ess-R-describe-object-at-point-commands.
> 
>   Vitalie
> 
>  >>> Rodney Sparapani on Sat, 05 Oct 2013 14:21:30 -0500 wrote:
> 
>  > On 10/05/2013 10:54 AM, Stefano Conti wrote:
>  >> Dear ESS developers team,
>  >> 
>  >> Since upgrading to the latest Emacs (latest version 24.3.1) ESS package
>  >> (version 13.09) I have been unable to get R (version 2.15.0) object
>  >> tooltips (u.http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ESSToolTips) working in ESS.
>  >> 
>  >> Specifically, upon invoking the ess-R-object-tooltip command from within
>  >> Emacs on any R script, I obtain a "let: Symbol's function definition is
>  >> void: get-ess-process" message in the mini-buffer.  Note that
>  >> downgrading ESS to its previous version (13.05) restores the
>  >> functionality of R object tooltips.
>  >> 
>  >> Hope the information above and below is helpful enough; I am also
>  >> copying Martin Maechler, whom I have previously received help on a
>  >> related issue from, in this correspondence.
>  >> 
>  >> Thank you in advance for any assistance you may provide, and sincere
>  >> apologies for any cross-posting.  Kind regards,
>  >> 
>  >> --
>  >> Dr Stefano Conti
> 
>  > Dear Stefano:
> 
>  > Thanks for the bug report.  However, there is no
>  > ess-R-object-tooltip command in ESS and the original URL
>  > is no longer active, i.e.
>  > http://www.sigmafield.org/2009/10/01/r-object-tooltips-in-ess/Unless I am mistaken, I believe this is not an ESS issue at all.
>  > Perhaps, if you share more details about the issue we could be
>  > of more assistance.  But, we only support ESS as released.
>