[ESS] Issue with error/warning messages in Emacs.app

[Rodney Sparapani]

Vincent Goulet wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Tired of deactivating many "features" of Aquamacs (an OS X-ified version 
> of Emacs), I decided to build my own distribution of Emacs for OS X 
> along the same lines as my Windows distribution. It is based on 
> Emacs.app, with the addition of ESS, AUCTeX and Aspell. See
> 
>     http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/mac
> 
> for details and if you want to become some sort of a beta tester.
> 
> Anyway, the point of my message was not to make an announcement, but 
> rather to report a problem. In an iESS buffer, error and warning 
> messages are somewhat garbled. For example:
> 
>  > 1:12 + 1:5
>  [1]  2  4  6  8 10  7  9 11 13 15 12 14
> Warning message:
> In 1:12 + 1:5 :
>   la taille d'un objet plus long n'est pas multiple de la taille d'un 
> objet plus court
> >
> 
> What can be the cause of the problem? A misconfiguration on my part? 
> Emacs? ESS?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any clue.
> 
> 
> Emacs is: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, NS 
> apple-appkit-949.43) compiled by myself based on the CVS version of 
> 2009-01-13.
> 
> ESS is 5.3.10
> 
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
> 
> locale:
> fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8/C/C/fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 

Hi Vincent:

Very interesting!  I'll have to check it out.  What is your TERM set to?

Rodney