[R] WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

[Peter Dalgaard]

Thomas Schönhoff <tom_woody at swissinfo.org> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> first trials to run R from inside of Emacs repeatedly gives me:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>  > ?sink
> 
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> -  (press RETURN)
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Seems like this is going to happen to all help calls using a questionmark!
> Any idea how to change this, maybe this isn't subject to change at all!???
...
> emacs21        21.3+1-7
> ess            5.2.2-2

Odd. You'd get that sort of error if you tried to run a pager in a
shell buffer, but ESS should intercept it and dump the help page into
a separate buffer. Any chance you're not actually running ESS?

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