For completeness, and without any time yet to dig into Lionel's nord modification, and as a friend who saw thread asked: what I ended up doing was following the hint about cli and NO_COLOR and now (conditionally) set
## No color from cli inside emacs ## https://cli.r-lib.org/reference/faq.html#how-do-i-turn-off-ansi-colors-and-styles- if (Sys.getenv("INSIDE_EMACS") != "") Sys.setenv(NO_COLOR="TRUE") That preserves cli behavior on the command-line etc but now prevents it from turning my R buffer under ESS in Emacs unreadable should I encounter an error. And that is good enough for now. Thanks again, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help