[ESS] Pop-up help in minibuffer - repeat request

[Vitalie S.]

"Peter Geelan-Small" <peter.geelan-small at sydney.edu.au> writes:

> G'day, Vitalie.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion but I don't have that line, (require 'ess-eldoc), in
> my .emacs file. It seems the feature is not ess-eldoc functionality.
>
> What is happening is either a default feature or something added in Vincent
> Goulet's Windows version, which I'm using.

As far as I can see Vincent Goulet's Windows version uses (require 'ess-eldoc) in
the INST_DIR/site-lisp/site-start.el. Just comment it out over there.

Cheers,
Vitalie.

>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Vitalie S. [mailto:spinuvit.list at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thu 9/12/2010 7:59 PM
> To: Peter Geelan-Small
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: Pop-up help in minibuffer - repeat request
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> It looks to me that you are talking about ess-eldoc functionality.
> By default ESS does not have this feature activated. You need to have
> something
> like
>
> (require 'ess-eldoc)
>
> in your emacs.
>
> Just remove that line, and hopefully your problem will be solved.
>
> Cheers,
> Vitalie.
>
> "Peter Geelan-Small" <peter.geelan-small at sydney.edu.au> writes:
>> G'day, ESS list.
>>
>> I haven't had an answer to this query, but I would really like one! It's not
> an idle personal preference. I've
>> found exchanges in the list about the benefits of this feature but I do have
> a reason for wanting to be able to
>> disable it.
>>
>> When I'm scrolling through a buffer with R code in it, by clicking in the
> scroll bar, and get to the point where I
>> want to be, the text in the window suddenly jumps through a screen or so and
> takes me away from where I wanted to
>> be. The reason seems to be that ESS has found a function it wants to give me
> help on but that I'm not interested
>> in! I assume it's because the cursor somehow trails behind and lands on some
> function somewhere when I stop
>> scrolling. This is very inconvenient behaviour.
>>
>> I don't mind if the reply to this is private, but I really do think if a
> genuine question is posted to the list
>> (any list, for that matter), there should be a reply of some sort. If
> someone is still working on an answer, my
>> apologies!
>>
>> Looking forward to some feedback,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Peter Geelan-Small
>> Sent: Wed 17/11/2010 3:07 PM
>> To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [ESS] Pop-up help in minibuffer
>>
>> G'day, ESS list.
>>
>> When you have the cursor on an R function name in a (Emacs) buffer, you get
> a pop-up of the skeleton of the
>> function in the minibuffer, showing its arguments. I'd like to turn this
> feature off, but can't find out how to in
>> either the ESS or Emacs manuals. Could someone point me in the right
> direction, please?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
>>
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