I use emacs exclusively. I've found the ruby-mode ebuild to be sufficient 
for me. What does ruby-electric offer that this doesn't?

-Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Ferrell" <Tim.Ferrell / s0nspark.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: emacs syntax highlighting problem


> Some further investigation uncovered the culprit: ruby-electric.el ( 
> http://shylock.uw.hu/Emacs/ruby-electric.el ) ... for some reason when I 
> "(require 'ruby-electric)" I don't get syntax highlighting.
>
> Anyone else using this successfully? Have I overlooked something?
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
> Tim Ferrell wrote:
>> Let me first say I am new to emacs ... so this may be something 
>> embarrassingly simple :-)
>>
>> I am running emacs 21.4.1 on gentoo linux and I have customized it with 
>> some of the tips I have found at ruby garden and a few other places ... 
>> All is working nicely except that I must have somehow managed to break 
>> syntax highlighting... even when I enable global font lock I get nothing 
>> but "normal" text :-(
>>
>> I have posted my configs at 
>> http://www.mcgeecorp.com/downloads/emacs-configs.tgz if anyone happens to 
>> have a few minutes to look them over. Thanks much and sorry if this is 
>> something stupid...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim
>>
>