[ESS] Syntax highlighting with R

[Stephen Eglen]

Graham Smith <myotisone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Loading a .R file opens ESS and M-x R loads R, and the assign symbol
> is in blue-green and executed commands in are bold, but that seems to
> be the only syntax highlighting I get. I was expecting to see more.

hi graham, it sounds like font locking is turned on to me.  If you type
in a comment at the R prompt, e.g.

### hello there

does it appear in red?

Stephen