[ESS] Help on Help

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Fri May 3 20:09:39 CEST 2013


Autoloads are user visible functionality, ess-with-current-buffer is an
internal function. 

ess-help.el might need an autoload to it; I am looking into it. 

    Vitalie

 >> Matthew Fidler <matthew.fidler at gmail.com>
 >> on Fri, 3 May 2013 13:03:50 -0500 wrote:

 > Vitalie,
 > I think that ess-with-current-buffer needs to have an autoload cookie to
 > work with the package interface.  I have added the autoload cookie so that
 > it may work with the MELPA package.

 > Matt.

 > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Matthew Fidler <matthew.fidler at gmail.com>wrote:

 >> That's strange. The package should only load one version of the ESS, not
 >> two.  I guess I will update and retry.
 >> 
 >> 
 >> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> Something went wrong with your loading. ess-with-current-buffer is
 >>> indeed a new macro in ess-inf.el.
 >>> 
 >>> That can only mean that your loaded ess-inf.el is older than ess-help.el
 >>> 
 >>> Vitalie
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> >> Matthew Fidler <matthew.fidler at gmail.com>
 >>> >> on Fri, 3 May 2013 11:08:02 -0500 wrote:
 >>> 
 >>> > All,
 >>> > In the latest github/svn version taken from MELPA the help does not
 >>> work
 >>> > properly.  When I start R, and then try to look-up help with C-c C-v.
 >>> It
 >>> > looks up the help, replaces the buffer with the help, sets it as
 >>> read-only,
 >>> > and states in the message window
 >>> 
 >>> > "Invalid function: ess-with-current-buffer"
 >>> 
 >>> > Matt.
 >>> 
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 >>> 
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 >> 
 >>



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