[ESS] Prevent new buffer for help from point

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 7 February 2020 at 09:06, Alex Branham wrote:
| Can you reproduce this without your .emacs file?

But ESS would not be turned on without it.
 
| Does that buffer's name match any entry in display-buffer-alist or all the
| similar variables?

The buffer my focus is stolen from is any off buffer in R mode, call it R/foo.R

The buffer the focus is moved is called *ess-command-output*

Per C-h v, the value of display-buffer-alist is nil.

Dirk

| 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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