On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Martin Maechler
<maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>wrote:

> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 04:09, Ron Burns <rrburns@cox.net> wrote:
> > ...an extra " or ' or something that toggles the *R* buffer into the
> "pink" font color mode for quoted text.
>
> (brown for me).  Yes, I know the unpleasant experience.
> In my case, it is almost always a non-matching back-quote : " ` "
> and stems from the old way of "quoting", namely  `this'  or  `that'.
>

I don't believe there is such a thing as `this' quoting, only 'this' and
"that" (string quotation) and `the other` (symbol quotation).

On the other hand, there is definitely a bug with ESS's string highlighting:

Though " ' " correctly recognizes that the ending quote-mark ends the
string, ' " ' does not.  This is inconsistent with R's parser and also
inconsistent with ESS itself, which correctly implements forward-sexp etc.
over these expressions.

           -s

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