[ESS-bugs] OOps! ESS partly fails in non-English locales!

[Stephen Eglen]

thanks for follow up Martin.

 > One thing: May be it is not "more problematic" than the problem I
 > reported.  The "only" mistake is the mini-buffer message "Not a
 > syntax error", but then one at least gets to see a relatively
 > simply to understand message.

Yes, agree - sorry, "problematic" was a bad choice of wording from me.

I can fix the regexp for this particular error:

 Error in parse(file, n = -1, NULL, "?") : syntax error on line 3

perhaps by a regexp searching for

  syntax error on line [line number]

but is that likely to be good enough for catching all R errors?

Thanks, Stephen