From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T20:40:17+09:00
Subject: Re: BUG: ruby-mode.el : '/=' operator breaks following indentation

On 2006-11-30, George Ogata <george.ogata@gmail.com> wrote:

> The issue is probably that it's treating the "/=" as the beginning
> of a multiline regexp.  A common fix for these sorts of "mistaken
> delimiters" is to put a comment at the end of the line containing a
> closing delimiter:
>
> def foo
>   x /= y  #/
>   bar
> end

Thanks, that works.  A slightly better fix is to add a ';' as well to
convince the major mode that the statement has ended, otherwise it
adds extra indentation to the next line.

def foo
  x /= y  # / ; 
  bar
end

I wonder how the Ruby parser decides that /= is an operator and not
the start of a regexp?

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty