"Flex" <tie / acm.org> writes:

> Just got Dave and Andy's book, want to try it out. I know I should use
> mode_ruby.el file to set up ruby mode in xemacs, but don't know how. Anybody
> can give me some help? Thanks a lot.

Put the ruby-mode.el file in a directory that's searched by xemacs. I
have a private directory ~/emacs, and add it to my path using

     (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/emacs/") load-path))


In your .emacs (or _emacs) add something like:

   (require 'ruby-mode)
   (setq auto-mode-alist
      (append
       '(
          ("\\.rb\\'" . ruby-mode)
          ... any other modes ...
        )
       auto-mode-alist))

Note that I'm using require rather than autoload. That gets around a
problem I was having with font-lock-mode under xemacs.


Regards


Dave