RE: special-display-regexps

[Drew Adams]

> > Are you sure you're testing with `pop-to-buffer' or `display-buffer' (or
> > something that calls one of those)? It works for me, using your 
> > examples.
>
> I don't know how to use pop-to-buffer or display-buffer to test
> this. 

M-: (pop-to-buffer "*help[R](matrix)*")

> I tried special-display-p on the following, and all worked as
> expected. (special-display-p "*help[R](matrix)*") ; returns t
>
> Maybe it's something internal to ESS -- it uses a special function to
> call the help buffer, so I've posted my problem on the
> gmane.emacs.ess.general list to see if they know what's going on.

That sounds like a good idea.