[ESS] how to reset ESS if color scheme changes?

[Richard M. Heiberger]

>  if i make an error in some commands and
> have to C-c C-c, the color scheme changes. for
> example, strings, usually highlighted in green, become
> black and the R terminal commands, usually highlighted
> in black, become highlighted in green.


Most likely you have interrupted the sequence in the middle of
a quoted string.  Therefore the colors from that point onward are
out of phase.  The repair is easy.  Go to the place in the *R* buffer
where it starts going wrong, and type a close quote character.

Rich