I had the same problem some months back; I switched from auto-complete to company-mode, and the problem stopped. Would be interested in a more full-fledged solution to this though.
Thanks, Pavel ________________________________ From: ESS-help <ess-help-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Julian M. Burgos via ESS-help <ess-help@r-project.org> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:55 AM To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> Cc: ESS-help <ess-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [ESS] Prevent new buffer for help from point Hi Dirk, I am having the same issue. Could you figure out what was causing this behaviour? It is driving me crazy. Thanks, Julian Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help writes: > On 7 February 2020 at 10:06, Tyler Smith via ESS-help wrote: > | On Fri, Feb 7, 2020, at 9:15 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help wrote: > | > > | > On 7 February 2020 at 09:06, Alex Branham wrote: > | > | Can you reproduce this without your .emacs file? > | > > | > But ESS would not be turned on without it. > | > | Since this only appears to be affecting your system, chances are there's > something in your config involved. > > Thanks to everybody who chimed in! This thread has been helpful as this > seems to be local to my setup and not a general misfeature -- good. > > | And since this just appeared, maybe it's a combination of a change in a > recent ESS release that interacts badly? > | > | You can load ESS without your .emacs file via > | > | emacs -Q > | > | followed by running the following code: > | > | (require 'package) > | (setq package-load-list > | '((ess t) > | (julia-mode t))) > | (package-initialize) > | > | (assuming you installed via `package`) > > Yes and no, kinda. I also have a bunch of Emacs packages from Debian / Ubuntu > but they too converted to using package via the melpa-$NAMEHER package setup. > > | That would allow us to at least rule out a bug in the version of ESS you've > got, and give you a starting place for adding your .emacs back in to narrow > down the source of the problem. > | > | I have a directory of these snippets, `ess.el`, `auctex.el`, `org.el`, > `polymode.el`, each with a minimal config for the package in question, since > I regularly discover new ways to break things ;) > > I hear you. 25 or so years with Emacs, mostly smooth, but getting a decent > C++ environment was a constant change. I really like what I have now, modulo > this nagging (and truly annoying) issue. > > I'll poke. Maybe I even start from a virgin Docker container with the same > distro version and add package by package, starting with ess and polymode. > > Dirk -- Julian Mariano Burgos, PhD Hafranns�knastofnun, ranns�kna- og r��gjafarstofnun hafs og vatna/ Marine and Freshwater Research Institute Botnsj�varsvi�s / Demersal Division Sk�lagata 4, 121 Reykjav�k, Iceland S�mi/Telephone : +354-5752037 Br�fs�mi/Telefax: +354-5752001 Netfang/Email: julian.bur...@hafogvatn.is ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fess-help&data=02%7C01%7Cpavel.panko%40ttu.edu%7C7200eaf8b9f7460d649e08d7ae5d4d69%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C637169588069053764&sdata=ZhZTGsJZJOCo%2FbMNvIhFo0pVoFxc%2Bbrv3Ky4ll6KVf0%3D&reserved=0 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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