[ESS] RSiteSearch functionality in Emacs

[Sebastian Luque]

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> For me it doesn't quite work -- when using Emacs 21.3 :

> The last "multi-input" doesn't really provide the proper
> completion: I need to add the 4-th item ('Rhelp01' IIRC, in the
> last choice.

I had made the default entries match the defaults, which don't include
that item.


> Then, it seems to reveal a problem of (browse-url .) for my
> setup:  That gives a popup window with title 'Close Firefox' and
> text
>>> 	Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To
>>> 	open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox
>>> 	process, or restart your system
>>> 						[  Ok  ]

> which is nonsense in some way, since
> the usual RSiteSearch() can open a new firefox window alright.

I cannot help there, sorry.  Does that occur with other external browsers?


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Sebastian P. Luque