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Preview output in minibuffer #1189

Open jthaman opened 2 years ago

jthaman commented 2 years ago

In SLIME and python-mode, output can be previewed in the minibuffer. This is useful because it makes programming with one buffer easier. So, rather than bouncing between script buffer and iESS buffer, users can just work in the script buffer, and take cues from the minibuffer to see if there are code errors. Of course, this has limitations because you only want to show one or a few lines of output in the minibuffer.

Wondering it it's also possible to have a mini-buffer-first repl workflow in ESS. Maybe just wrap iESS output in (message)?

vspinu commented 2 years ago

What is the key for that?

For a while now I wanted to implement a hover: while hoovering on an object a str is displayed in hover popup. Your proposal sounds similar.