Re: Small improvements to ruby-mode

[Bozhidar Batsov]

On 6 July 2013 01:35, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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