OK, I think I'm getting somewhere thanks to the advice I've received.
Now if only they sold a microchip implant to store all these emacs
shortcuts, that you could plug in at your fingertips. I wonder what
programming language they'd use to control it.

Many thanks,

baptiste



2009/9/1 Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>

> >>>>> "ba" == baptiste auguie <baptiste.auguie@googlemail.com>
> >>>>>     on Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:49:07 +0200 writes:
>
>    ba> Thanks! I'd tried that but sadly it was on a Grid function, and it
> so
>    ba> happens that Grid isn't part of the default help system... I guess
> custom
>    ba> packages can be added to the search path, somehow?
>
> ??
> Of course, help is only searched in active packages, not in all
> the thousands of packages that may be installed.
>

>    ba> Best regards,
>
>    ba> baptiste
>
>    ba> (still hoping to raise my editing ratio real work vs. ~/.emacs
> higher than
>    ba> unity)
>
> !!
>
>
>    ba> 2009/9/1 Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
>
>    >> baptiste auguie <baptiste.auguie@googlemail.com> wrote:
>    >>
>    >> > Dear all,
>    >> >
>    >> > Yet again a silly question: how do you obtain help for a given
> function
>    >> > (selected, or simply where the cursor currently sits)? I could use
> C-c
>    >> C-v
>    >> > but this requires me to type the word again.
>    >>
>    >> If point (emacs' term for the cursor) is currently on a R function,
>    >> e.g. apply, then when you do C-c C-v you should see in the echo area:
>    >>
>    >> Help on (default apply):
>    >>
>    >> so if you hit return, the default is used.
>    >>
>    >> > Also, is there a way to open the help in a new window as opposed to
>    >> > masking the buffer I was working on?  I keep having to switch back
> to
>    >> > this one with the mouse and it's annoying (e.g. when I start the R
>    >> > process it covers the file i was working with).
>
> "cover"  ???
> You should have the help open in another emacs buffer (in the
> same frame aka "window"), and you can very quickly switch and
> from that , using  C-x o / C-x 1 / C-x 0 / C-x b  etc etc.
> *NO* need for the mouse here. There's nothing faster than the
> keyboard.
>
>    >> See variable ess-help-own-frame if you want it in a separate frame.
>
> Yes, but that will be even "slower" and more "mouse using".
>
> Martin
>

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