Message-ID: <200304221702.h3MH2JoZ028530@erdos.math.unb.ca>
Date: 2003-04-22T17:02:19Z
From: Rolf Turner
Subject: help.start in R-1.7.0 with Netscape 7.0.
The recent discussion on lexical scoping has enlightened me
as regards the phenomenon that I found so puzzling yesterday:
> So help() doesn't find the local copy of browseURL() unless there is
> also a local copy of help() --- and that local copy needs to have
> been created by sourcing a text file!!! This doesn't make any sense
> to me. It verges on the mystical. What on earth is going on?
Thomas Lumley's succinct explanation
> ... the lookup depends on where a function was defined, not where
> it was called from.
made the light click on. No mystical behaviour at all.
The silence as regards the substance of my question has been
deafening, however.
***HOW*** do I get help()/browseURL() to acquire a sensible idea of
``isLocal'' so that Netscape does not keep demanding new windows and
new ``profiles''?
Does this behaviour not amount to a bug in help()/browseURL()?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
rolf at math.unb.ca