From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T00:54:27+09:00
Subject: Re: step by step tutorial on using emacs with Ruby

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, anne001 wrote:

> I downloaded emacs from
> http://home.att.ne.jp/alpha/z123/emacs-mac-e.html
> It said that ruby was installed.
> 
> I have spent two hours searching this list and the web, and I cannot
> find any tutorial telling beginners what to do. Not in emacs, in emacs
> wiki, in ruby sites...
> 
        [...]
> -------------------------------
> and here is emacs answer
> -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "~/Desktop/" -*-
> Compilation started at Thu Nov 17 10:01:06
> 
> make -k ruby
> make: Nothing to be done for `ruby'.

You don't have a makefile or Makefile to tell it how to build the
the target "ruby".  If your emacs setup calls `make -k ruby` there's
something odd there anyway, why would you have a target ruby in your
makefile when ruby is your programming language.  Your target should
be make all, possibly, or make <your_script_name> here.
> 
> Compilation finished at Thu Nov 17 10:01:07
> -------------------------------
> So what is it I am supposed to do to run this code from emacs?
>  I read about Mx which I read means
> using esc on my mac followed by x
> pressing r space offered various completions. I found I could choose
> ruby-mode as one of the completion of the esc x command. Is that
> helpful? Can I use esc x to run my snipet from emacs?

Ok, let's reframe the problem:  Emacs is an editor with lots of
advanced features. It sounds like you are not fluent in emacs, and
actually, neither am I.  So I will do 2 things:

1: Point you at the information I found about emacs which I put here:

  http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/software/#emacs

2: Ask you: If you had a free choice about the editor you could use,
what would it be?  We may then be able to find you a port of it for
the Mac or point you at something which behaves in a similar way.

        Hugh