Re: [ESS] "no longer seeing the help files" (was '[R] Adjusting axis labels ..')
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Martin Maechler wrote: It could be that you've stumbled over the same problem I had stumbled on, ca 10 days ago, when I upgraded from emacs 24.x to emacs 25.1 and from Fedora 22 to 24 Linux. Martin, I'm still running Slackware-14.1 on this host with emacs-24.3. Somehow, 'stty' settings got changed in my setup, and together with an old environment variable default of PAGER=more, and *R* printing help(.) to the ESS help buffer using the pager, this also lead to "not appearing help pages" (because more is interactive, and was waiting for "page forward" inside the ESS help buffer .. yuck !!). Yuck, indeed. For that reason, in the the development version of ESS (also available from MELPA as far as I know), we now do make use of the ess-pager variable (again) which defaults to "cat" on Linux, and that *did* solve the above problem for me. Good to know ... BTW: We plan to release ESS 16.10 in ca. 10 days, so would be happy if many of you started to "beta test" it. I'll put this on my to-do list. Thanks, Rich __ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
[ESS] "no longer seeing the help files" (was '[R] Adjusting axis labels ..')
> Rich Shepard > on Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:51:39 -0700 writes: [..] > I need to figure out why I'm no longer seeing the help files. As far as I > know they should be loaded when I invoke R. and earlier you mentioned you are using ESS > Thanks very much, > Rich > __ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list It could be that you've stumbled over the same problem I had stumbled on, ca 10 days ago, when I upgraded from emacs 24.x to emacs 25.1 and from Fedora 22 to 24 Linux. Somehow, 'stty' settings got changed in my setup, and together with an old environment variable default of PAGER=more, and *R* printing help(.) to the ESS help buffer using the pager, this also lead to "not appearing help pages" (because more is interactive, and was waiting for "page forward" inside the ESS help buffer .. yuck !!). For that reason, in the the development version of ESS (also available from MELPA as far as I know), we now do make use of the ess-pager variable (again) which defaults to "cat" on Linux, and that *did* solve the above problem for me. BTW: We plan to release ESS 16.10 in ca. 10 days, so would be happy if many of you started to "beta test" it. --> see another e-mail with a different subject Martin Maechler ETH Zurich __ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
