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From: <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: [ESS] launch help.start() in EWW browser Date: September 9, 2025 at 12:34:34 PM EDT To: Naresh Gurbuxani <[email protected]> Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Tyler Smith via ESS-help <[email protected]> Date: September 8, 2025 at 10:05:20 PM EDT To: ESS-help <[email protected]> Subject: [ESS] launch help.start() in EWW browser Reply-To: Tyler Smith <[email protected]> On Fri, Sep 5, 2025, at 6:17 AM, Naresh Gurbuxani via ESS-help wrote: When running R in terminal emacs, what options are needed so that help.start() opens EWW browser? The following elisp code opens the R html docs in EWW, when called via `M-x ess-eww`. It seems to work fine for me on Ubuntu Linux. If it works generally, I'd be happy to clean it up for inclusion in ESS. Alternatively, if we accept running Emacs in daemon mode as a pre-requisite (i.e., meaning emacsclient is available), it's probably not too hard to find the proper syntax for the `browser` argument of `help.start()`. I looked at that too, but then this approach presented itself. It has the advantage of not needing the emacsclient server. Let me know if this looks useful! - tyler ``` (defun ess-eww () (interactive) (let ((BUF (generate-new-buffer "URL")) (PORT)) (ess-command "print(tools::startDynamicHelp(NA))" BUF) (with-current-buffer BUF (setq PORT (buffer-substring 5 (point-max)))) (kill-buffer BUF) (eww (concat "http://127.0.0.1:"; PORT "/doc/html/index.html")))) ``` ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
