Re: Small improvements to ruby-mode

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06.07.2013 9:31, Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
>     We should contact Kyle, then, for the copyright assignment. Or,
>     again, patches welcome. :)
>
>
> I guess it'd be best of Stefan approached him?

Not necessarily. IME, the hard part is to get the author to agree to 
this commitment.

> A bold yellowish face seems like a nice option to me. Will make it clear
> that !orax is not actually lorax for instance. Maybe it should simply
> derive from the keyword face?

I don't think it should: in the default theme, purple negation char 
would look odd.

> On a related note - often && and || are
> highlighted as keywords. Maybe ruby-mode should do the same for
> consistency with `and` and `or`?

I don't think I've ever seen that (e.g. python-mode and coffee-mode 
don't). These are not particularly different from other operators, and I 
don't think we should highlight them all.