[ESS] Tiny trouble in color after loading mgcv

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Tue Mar 2 15:39:33 CET 2010


On 03/ 2/10 03:04 AM, Susumu Tanimura wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> ESS has very nice syntax highlighting. After loading mgcv package, the
> following message appear in *R* buffer.
>
>> library(mgcv)
> This is mgcv 1.6-1. For overview type `help("mgcv-package")'.
>
> Then, all characters in *R* buffer are colored same (pink-like color)
> subsequent to "`", that is, syntax highlighting is virtually killed.
>
> It is tiny problem but nags at me. Asking the author of mgcv to replace
> "`" with "'" could be a solution. But if someone has advice or
> solution which I can do by myself, please show me.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Susumu

I see that too.  The problem is that ` is considered a string separator 
for some reason.  Is that really necessary?  In the meantime, enter 
something like #` and everything should be fine.



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