From: doodpants@... (Karl von Laudermann)
Date: 2004-07-10T04:37:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Syntax capable editors for OS X?

Michael Fivis <michael.fivis@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<ed73706704070904021fd87748@mail.gmail.com>...
> Hello, fellow OS X Ruby fans. I was wondering if there was any nice
> Cocoa/Carbon (with ruby highlighting/features) editor that you
> use/know about?

I just use Xcode, which supports syntax coloring of Ruby code. It also
allows you navigate between methods using the method drop-down list at
the top of the window.

However, its interpretation of Ruby syntax is not perfect. For
example, it doesn't treat regular expressions as atomic (a la string
literals), so if you have something like this:

foo = /"/

It will highlight everything from the " character onward as a string,
until it hits another " character. I get around this by using a
comment like so:

foo = /"/    #"

BTW, I recently bought TextWrangler, which I was surprised and
disappointed to discover *doesn't* include Ruby among the languages
that it can syntax-color. Especially since it does support Perl and
Python, as well as some that I would assume there to be little demand
for such as Object Pascal and Rez.