My mistake.  Apparently it was the way that I was building and installing
ess as an Ubuntu package.

I just created a fresh clone and used

cd ESS
fakeroot debian/rules binary

to create the ess package and installed it.  Everything seems happy now.



On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago there was a thread on
>
>  julia mode syntax highlighting - single quote misparsed
>
> in which Vitalie said that certain issues were fixed in the git branch. I
> have been maintaining a git clone and building from the master branch of
> the git repository but I still have the single quote treated as starting a
> character string.  Should I be using another branch from the git repository.
>
> I'm building from the branch with commits
>
> d96243f5 * origin/master origin/HEAD master making ` a string delimiter in
> julia
> e374b2f3 * Remove syntactic highlighting of ''. It is used as transpose in
> Julia.
>
>
>

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