From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Seiji Zenitani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ruby-mode? Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:50:32 +0900 Message-ID: <1B1F56CE-6787-4B94-86EC-FE3E6A9D9BE7@gmail.com> References: <19b4247f0611172243nd76dc95w7cb73e0139e0cb19@mail.gmail.com> <85d57lgdv1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163860118 22851 80.91.229.2 (18 Nov 2006 14:28:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 18 15:28:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlRBL-0003uR-EF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:28:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlRBK-0004nr-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlPfe-0000Cg-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:51:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlPfb-0000Bx-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlPfb-0000Bu-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:51:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.249.82.226] (helo=wx-out-0506.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GlPfb-0001iu-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:51:43 -0500 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so1249934wxd for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:51:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=QwUBDzkXBYD8fKu53riZijU9hT/3Aj0OnwgD0Rer8exl4z821l/DuTorkcE8BGJev6m1dtjiHLXot4xJlxka0b5XqkfqPZQp/SCrsEj8jVLTeUmD/7IeCfpxFMoyxBN2zyxdIQJmXKle6rf21gk0eZVEeujI4uygzQVu40IT+lw= Original-Received: by 10.70.23.2 with SMTP id 2mr5238522wxw.1163854302078; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:51:42 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ?192.168.1.22? ( [211.131.79.59]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 66sm5964260wra.2006.11.18.04.51.40; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:51:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <85d57lgdv1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Original-To: David Kastrup X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:28:20 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62419 Archived-At: On 2006/11/18, at 21:04, David Kastrup wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >>> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:43:41 +0900 >>> From: "Seiji Zenitani" >>> >>> In November 2005, I contacted both ruby-mode authors and RMS. >>> Ruby-mode authors agreed, but it was postponed because Emacs 22 was >>> coming near. One year has passed since then. Considering its >>> importance, I think it's time to include ruby-mode. >> >> FWIW, I don't see why Emacs 22 release is of any importance for the >> decision whether to include ruby-mode, unless ruby-mode requires >> changes in other parts of Emacs. If no such additional changes are >> required, inclusion of ruby-mode cannot possibly hurt anything, since >> this is a new feature that didn't exist before. > > Well, strictly speaking, we would not want to have Emacs hang (for > example while font-locking) when it opens a Ruby file, even if it > means opening it in Fundamental Mode. > > However, since ruby-mode.el has presumably been used by a non-zero > number of users this last year, I don't think that this catastrophic > scenario is probable enough to prefer having Emacs 22 without a > dedicated Ruby mode. > > So Seiji, do you know whether the assignment process was done at that > time? If it wasn't, that's something we should really do now. > At that time, no assignment process was done, but authors were favorable to provide ruby-mode. How about contacting ruby-developers mailing list ? Two authors join this list. == Seiji Zenitani zenitani@gmail.com