Tweaking Emacs for Ruby Development
14 points by s0l1dsnak3123 2 years ago | 4 comments- comfypotato 2 years agoRuby itself was developed specifically for Emacs. Decisions were made about syntax specifically because they did or did not work well with default Emacs movement and structure editing.
- s0l1dsnak3123 2 years agoI didn't know that, what an interesting detail!
- comfypotato 2 years agoMy source is an Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua, and the guest mentioned that they heard it from the developer of Ruby.
So the source here is a tad removed, but it sounded right to me!
- s0l1dsnak3123 2 years agoIt seems like Matz was the one who wrote the original ruby-mode! http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_m...
Additionally, from the same article:
> so, Matz's remark that he learned/created Ruby from reading emacs source code is genuine.
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