From: Tim Heaney <theaney@...>
Date: 2006-01-10T21:08:01+09:00
Subject: Re: XEmacs Indentation Broken?

"AlexG" <alexg@ebi.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Just started working with a new Ubuntu box and something wierd is going
> on with XEmacs ruby support. The automatic indentation (hitting tab on
> the line I want indented or selecting by region) works right up till I
> put in a statement using the =~ operator and a regular expression and
> then it fails for every line afterwards (just using a regular
> expression doesn't break it nor does something like 'foo =~ bar').

I can't duplicate this problem on my machine. I am using

  XEmacs 21.4 (patch 18) "Social Property" [Lucid] 
  (x86_64-redhat-linux, Mule) of Mon Dec  5 2005 on hammer3.fedora.redhat.com

with ruby-mode 1.25.2.11. Both tab and C-M-\ indented your example.

> It works fine on my OSX laptop which has XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) and
> ruby-mode revision 1.25.2.11. I tried moving the ruby-mode.el file from
> the laptop to the Ubuntu box but it makes no difference. I was hoping
> to avoid having to downgrade XEmacs itself.

Perhaps an upgrade to 21.4 (patch 18) instead?

Tim