[ruby-talk:13545] Re: formatting source code

Mark Slagell wrote:

> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng spake:
> > ...
> > You can find more information here:
> >
> > http://www.rubygarden.com/ruby?EditorExtensions
> >
> > and here:
> >
> > http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/rubyfaq-1.html#ss1.11
> >
> > I'm not sure about a separate utility though. ...
>
> I would be pleased to see a separate utility, kind of like 'indent'.
> Maybe I should be writing one?
>
> Sometimes I get the emacs mode confused so that it thinks the last half
> of a program file is a big regexp or string literal. Most normal code
> doesn't have that effect, just once in a while it happens. A bunch of
> code turns a lovely lavender. Can probably dig up a example if nobody
> else has experienced it.
>
> Wait, is that lavender or something else? turquoise? pink? blue? dilly
> dilly ... as a disclaimer: I'm not all that good with my colors. My
> parents say I used to call peanut butter green.
>
>   Mark

Mark,

I've seen this also I think it has something to do with uneven numbers of
forward slashes in regexeps ie: "/\//" being the smallest example of this.
However I'm "between boxes" and don't have Ruby nor Ruby mode at this very
moment.

I think writing a runby version of indent or extending indent to understand
ruby is a very good idea.

Marc
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