[ESS] Syntax highlighting with R

Graham Smith myotisone at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 22:59:09 CET 2008


Erik,

Thanks, I have obviously misunderstood the manual

> ESS should take care of syntax highlighting for all its supported languages
> automatically, so all I do is, in .emacs,

> You'll have to adjust the path to your own of course, but after you do that,
> your .R files should have syntax highlighting if global-font-lock-mode is
> on.

I think my first line sets the global-font-lock-mode to on, but with
.R files the only syntax highlighting I get is a blue-green assign
symbol. Completed commands are in bold but that seems to be it,
Should I expect more than this.

Graham




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