[ESS] Prevent new buffer for help from point

[Alex Branham]

Can you reproduce this without your .emacs file?

Does that buffer's name match any entry in display-buffer-alist or all the
similar variables?

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020, 3:39 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help <
ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:

>
> On 6 February 2020 at 10:19, James W. MacDonald wrote:
> | It's not clear from your question exactly what the behaviour is, but it
> | sounds like auto complete?
>
> No, I like autocomplete.
>
> As I wrote in what is still below, I have irony-mode and other helpers.
> But what is annoying as hell is that ESS decided to
>   - move focus away from where I am (writing R code)
>   - move to a completely new buffer (showing help I did not ask for)
>   - require me to kill the new buffer to get back to where I was
> which happens *each and every time* I type a token it knows and could
> complete to a help page it then takes me to.
>
> Anyone have an idea what I need to turn on to suppress this?
>
> Dirk
>
> | On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 2:15 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help <
> | ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
> |
> | >
> | > When I have e.g. a local variable arr (for array) and start typing
> | >
> | >   print(arr
> | >
> | > in an ESS buffer, I first (briefly) get a helpful and uninstrusive
> dropdown
> | > starting with arrows, array and more.
> | >
> | > But annoyingly, a split second later it flips to a new help buffer
> | > (entitled
> | > *ess-command-output*) which the help text for arrows. I absolutely do
> not
> | > want that.  I have been unable to turn it off though.
> | >
> | > I am running the last release, and I have a somewhat muddled .emacs
> also
> | > enabled irony and a few more modes helpful for programming in different
> | > languages, but this behaviour seems to be ESS specific. How do I stop
> it?
> | >
> | > Sorry to be asking such a noob question after what must now be a
> quarter
> | > century of Emacs, R and ESS...
> | >
> | > Dirk
> | >
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