On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:01:26 +0200 Stephen Berman via ESS-help <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:58:42 +0200 Sebastian Meyer via ESS-help > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just noticed there is a related function already in ESS: >> ess-rutils-html-docs ("Use ‘browse-url’ to navigate R html >> documentation."). It no longer seems to work though. From an ESS[R] buffer, I >> get 'Wrong type argument: stringp, nil' and from iESS I get 'Search failed: >> "http://";'. Maybe that function can be resurrected? > > I don't the wrong-type-argument error but I do get the failed search > error. The attached patch fixes it for me and then I can use EWW to > browse the R docs. > > Steve Berman Oops, I guess the list deletes attachments; here's the patch inline: diff --git a/lisp/ess-r-mode.el b/lisp/ess-r-mode.el index 2a6c3293..e7bee1a7 100644 --- a/lisp/ess-r-mode.el +++ b/lisp/ess-r-mode.el @@ -2930,6 +2930,7 @@ the \\='R_HOME\\=' directory on a remote server (defaults to NULL)." (rhtml (format ".ess_help_start(%s, %s)\n" update remote))) (with-temp-buffer (ess-command rhtml (current-buffer) nil nil nil (get-process proc)) + (goto-char (point-max)) (let* ((begurl (search-backward "http://";)) (endurl (search-forward "index.html")) (url (buffer-substring-no-properties begurl endurl))) Steve Berman ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
