Re: Small improvements to ruby-mode

[Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>]

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On 8 July 2013 00:56, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> >> SMIE comes with Emacs since 23.4 and ruby-mode doesn't use SMIE:
> > I'm interested in working on this, but I'm not sure how soon I'll be able
> > to fit it in my schedule.
>
> Please do send along any question you might have about SMIE.
>
> >> >> * 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).
>
> Hmm... never thought of it as a problem.  So presumably this face
> wouldn't be used for variants like "¬" or "not", right?
>

Yep, I'm pretty sure the idea is to use it just for !.

>
> >> ruby-mode doesn't run on older Emacsen, but it's not hard to fix.  Since
> >> earlier versions distributed via Marmalade and Tromey's archive seem to
> >> cause problems, perhaps we should make an effort and upload the current
> >> version to Marmalade, at least once. It stable enough, I think.
>
> More generally, we could sync up the Emacs trunk code with the
> ruby-mode in http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/misc.
>
> > I guess this makes sense. I've often seen complaints about the ruby-mode
> in
> > Marmalade being older than the one currently bundled in Emacs.
>
> As long as it doesn't cause people to fork (i.e. start contributing new
> features to some older version of ruby-mode such as the one in
> svn.ruby-lang.org, it's not really a problem.
>
> >> We should contact Kyle, then, for the copyright assignment. Or, again,
> >> patches welcome. :)
> > I guess it'd be best of Stefan approached him?
>
> I can't see any email address.  Could you ask him to get in touch with me?
>

I saw this email on his GitHub profile pd@krh.me

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>
>         Stefan
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