From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T02:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:14:56 +0900, Brian Schr�der wrote:
> 
>>If a program could guide where I look that would be nice. Therefore also
>>an external program or an xemacs plugin would be nice to me.
>>
>>And just to clarify: This is in no way urgent or very important to me, I
>>just liked the idea ;)
>>
> 
> 
> Here is a simple emacs function that does the job:
> 
> (defun ruby-check-ends ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let (loose-end)
>     (save-excursion
>       (goto-char (point-min))
>       (while (and (not loose-end)
> 		  (re-search-forward "^[ \t]*\\(end\\)[ \t\n]" nil t))
> 	(goto-char (match-beginning 1))
> 	(if (not (eq (current-column) (ruby-calculate-indent)))
> 	    (setq loose-end (point)))
> 	(forward-char)))
>     (cond (loose-end
> 	   (goto-char loose-end)
> 	   (message "indentation of end is not correct")))))
> 
> It may not work correctly if you use a different style then the
> one emacs is set up to, but you will probably use this for your code
> anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> Kristof
> 
Nicely done! I added it to my init.el. And again I learned a bit more elisp.

regards,

Brian
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