Re: Small improvements to ruby-mode

[Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>]

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On 6 July 2013 01:35, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > I thought the manual installation instructions were leftovers from the
> old
> > ruby-mode. I was under the impression that since ruby-mode started using
> > SMIE it's not a good idea to distribute it separately, since it might not
> > behave appropriately on older Emacsen. Perhaps I'm wrong.
>
> SMIE comes with Emacs since 23.4 and ruby-mode doesn't use SMIE:
> I installed a rough first cut at what could become SMIE support, but
> since I don't use Ruby, I probably won't do it myself and it looks like
> noone's interested to pick up the work.
>

I'm interested in working on this, but I'm not sure how soon I'll be able
to fit it in my schedule.

>
> > That's unfortunate.  Files with tabs look like Christmas trees for most
> > whitespace-mode users.
>
> If they have nothing better to do than watch the lights of the Xmas
> tree, it's their choice.  IOW I think the problem is that those users
> should get a life.
>
> >> * make use of `font-lock-negation-char-face` for !
>
> Why have a special face for the negation char?  What's so special about
> this char?
>

As the face description says it's pretty easy to overlook an ! attached to
some identifier(like !ol - you can mistake the this for lol).
Unfortunately few major modes have bothered to use the face.

>
>
>         Stefan
>

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