Re: launch help.start() in EWW browser

Tyler Smith via ESS-help <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:14:27 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.ess.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025, at 2:01 PM, Stephen Berman 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 =E2=80=98browse-url=E2=80=99 to navigate R ht=
ml
>> documentation."). It no longer seems to work though. From an ESS[R] buff=
er, I
>> get 'Wrong type argument: stringp, nil' and from iESS I get 'Search fail=
ed:
>> "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.

I should have spent more time looking at the existing functions! I am somew=
hat comforted to see that my attempt was pretty close to the official versi=
on :)

Tyler

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