Thanks! I'd tried that but sadly it was on a Grid function, and it so
happens that Grid isn't part of the default help system... I guess custom
packages can be added to the search path, somehow?

Best regards,

baptiste

(still hoping to raise my editing ratio real work vs. ~/.emacs higher than
unity)


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).
> See variable ess-help-own-frame if you want it in a separate frame.
>
> Stephen
>



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