[ESS] Documentation buffer interrupting typing in the iESS buffer

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 20:20:01 CEST 2014


That should not happen. I expect this is an ac-use-quick-help which
triggers an error. How does it behave on functions with documentation?

Do you see popups like in http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ESSAuto-complete ?


Does it help if you set ac-use-quick-help to nil?

   Vitalie




 >>> Sebastien Vauban on Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:48:15 +0200 wrote:

 > Hello,
 > Using the iESS buffer to type and test code, I'm constantly interrupted
 > now by the documentation telling me it did not find information about
 > my private variables.

 > Pretty logic that there is no known documentation (though, that'd be
 > good), but, as you can see http://screencast.com/t/oOl5m8VhggIU,

 > - as soon as I type, the documentation opens a new buffer (and switches
 >   to it) with a warning,

 > - a new iESS buffer is launched as well (see *R:2*),

 > - as soon as I go back to the iESS buffer, this whole process begins
 >   again, blocking me in fact.

 > Do you understand what happens here?

 > Best regards,
 >   Seb

 > PS- w32 binary version of Emacs (no Cygwin! ;-)).



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