On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit.list@gmail.com>wrote:

> > (1) browsing of vignettes, a la the output from browseVignettes()
> This one is quite easy to implement including links to pdf, Rnw and R
> code. Will do it in the weekend.
>
> > (2) I think you did this already: package index
> > (3) making the help system work for package?, class? etc.  Right now
> > they print to the *R* buffer instead of to a separate help buffer
>
> This one is also straightforward, a couple of months ago I posted a
> patch for ??. The same should work for class? etc.
>
> An usability comment here. I personally never needed this feature,
> mainly because I am using IDO activated everywhere
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings#toc13)
> I just call help completion (C-c C-v), then type "-cla C-SPC" and my
> completion list is reduced to all help pages with *-cla* in them. I
> type Chol, and get {Cholesky-class, Cholesky-factorization-class,
> pCyolesky-class} in my minubuffer. Same thing works for packages or
> methods, type "-meth C-SPC", "-pack C-SPC".
>
> If you have never used IDO, have a look at this screencast
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgPNVIMkIE&noredirect=1
>
> IDO is part of emacs, I am convinced that ESS should take advantage of
> it and use it whenever present. Being an unique feature of emacs this
> has the potential of bringing more users to ESS. If there are people
> interested I can look into refactoring ess completion mechanism a bit
> to use IDO.
>
>
>
IDO looks very interesting and useful. COuld you please share you emacs
config in regard to ido to have a working setup for ESS with IDO wherever
it is useful to start from?

Cheers,

Rainer




> > (4) It would be nice to somehow get improved help for S4 methods.
> > This could be something as simple as showing all signatures for a
> > given method
>
> I am using IDO by default for flagging S4-methods for debugging in
> ess-tracebug (
> http://code.google.com/p/ess-tracebug/#Flag/Unflag_for_Debugging).
> Same mechanism could be applied for help in principle, but as I've
> already said making IDO work for ess completion makes it simple
> enough.
>
>
> Vitalie.
>
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