From: adam@... (Adam Spiers)
Date: 2001-11-17T00:48:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25449] Re: ruby-mode.el

In article <3B16441E.1FEB4443@larc.nasa.gov>,
Bil Kleb  <W.L.Kleb@LaRC.NASA.Gov> wrote:
> Where is the home for ruby-mode.el?  I.e., where do I find the latest
> source?

It gets distributed with ruby itself, I think.

> Has the fontification bug caused by /'s been fixed?

Does this help?  (Patches against ruby-mode.el in ruby 1.6.4)

--- misc/ruby-mode.el.orig	Wed Mar 21 08:04:12 2001
+++ misc/ruby-mode.el	Thu Jun 21 14:32:27 2001
@@ -733,6 +733,10 @@
 	     "\\|")
 	    "\\)\\>\\([^_]\\|$\\)")
 	   2)
+     ;; regexps
+     '("/\\(\\(\\\\/\\|[^/\n]\\)*\\)/\\([iop]*\\)"
+       (1 font-lock-string-face)
+       (3 font-lock-constant-face))
      ;; variables
      '("\\(^\\|[^_:.@$]\\|\\.\\.\\)\\b\\(nil\\|self\\|true\\|false\\)\\b\\([^_]\\|$\\)"
        2 font-lock-variable-name-face)

I also have a patch for the %r() %w// style of quoting but it requires
non-greedy regexps, which are not supported by GNU emacs 20.x.