Can you reproduce this without your .emacs file? Does that buffer's name match any entry in display-buffer-alist or all the similar variables?
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020, 3:39 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help < ess-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > On 6 February 2020 at 10:19, James W. MacDonald wrote: > | It's not clear from your question exactly what the behaviour is, but it > | sounds like auto complete? > > No, I like autocomplete. > > As I wrote in what is still below, I have irony-mode and other helpers. > But what is annoying as hell is that ESS decided to > - move focus away from where I am (writing R code) > - move to a completely new buffer (showing help I did not ask for) > - require me to kill the new buffer to get back to where I was > which happens *each and every time* I type a token it knows and could > complete to a help page it then takes me to. > > Anyone have an idea what I need to turn on to suppress this? > > Dirk > > | 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 > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
