{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/378","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emacs-ess/ESS","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/378/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/378/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/378/events","html_url":"https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/378","id":180477750,"number":378,"title":"R help not output to emacs buffer","user":{"login":"r2evans","id":5815808,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5815808?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans","html_url":"https://github.com/r2evans","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r2evans/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2016-10-01T20:17:05Z","updated_at":"2016-10-03T12:56:41Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Symptom: `?lm` (also `help(\"lm\")`, `help.search(\"lm\")`, similarly for other R functions), the help contents are flashed in an external window (outside emacs). `*Messages*` buffer just adds an empty line, no textual error message.\r\n\r\nPer #371, I verified the following, no change:\r\n\r\n```r\r\nSys.getenv(\"PAGER\")\r\n# [1] \"cat\"\r\ngetOption(\"pager\")\r\n# [1] \"cat\"\r\ngetOption(\"help_type\") \r\n# [1] \"text\"\r\n```\r\n\r\nPer #313, I don't get the same behavior. Just to verify, I added https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/commit/e082889b718ec060628bb9bab75f58e78e9526b5 locally and still does not work.\r\n\r\n```\r\nGNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-09-17\r\ness-version: 16.09 [elpa: 20160930.1243] (loaded from c:/Users/r2/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20160930.1243/)\r\n```\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/comments/251098839","html_url":"https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/378#issuecomment-251098839","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/378","id":251098839,"user":{"login":"mmaechler","id":995722,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/995722?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler","html_url":"https://github.com/mmaechler","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mmaechler/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-10-03T12:56:41Z","updated_at":"2016-10-03T12:56:41Z","body":"The change I had committed solved very \"broken\" behavior in Emacs 25.1 and my setup which ended setting the PAGER environment variable to \"more\".  The change does what we have documented for years to do -- but must have dropped doing years ago -- namely it ensures the configureable emacs / ESS variable `inferior-ess-pager` is used in R for the pager option.\r\n\r\nSo, to solve your (Windows only, right ?) problem,  that variable should have been set to `\"console\"`  on Windows, shouldn't it?     Can you confirm that  `\"console\"` works fine there ?"}}
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