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

[Vincent Goulet]

Le ven. 16 janv. à 14:00, Rodney Sparapani a écrit :

> 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?

M-x getenv RET TERM RET gives "dumb". Doesn't look too good, heh?

OTOH, in R,

 > Sys.getenv("TERM")
    TERM
"emacs"

I confess I'm somewhat lost, here. What would be a good value? How do  
we set the TERM?

TIA

Vincent

>
>
> Rodney