Re: launch help.start() in EWW browser

Stephen Berman via ESS-help <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:01:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.ess.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:58:42 +0200 Sebastian Meyer via ESS-help <ess-help@r=
-project.org> wrote:

> I just noticed there is a related function already in ESS:
> ess-rutils-html-docs ("Use =E2=80=98browse-url=E2=80=99 to navigate R html
> documentation."). It no longer seems to work though. From an ESS[R] buffe=
r, I
> get 'Wrong type argument: stringp, nil' and from iESS I get 'Search faile=
d:
> "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

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