It's not clear from your question exactly what the behaviour is, but it sounds like auto complete? https://guangchuangyu.github.io/2014/12/auto-complete-in-ess/
Which I tried for like five minutes before deciding it was not for me. Jim On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 2:15 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help < ess-help@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 > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > -- James W. MacDonald, M.S. Biostatistician University of Washington Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, # 100 Seattle WA 98105-6099 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help