From: Le Wang <>
Date: 2001-12-24T02:37:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29370] Re: XEmacs problems with ruby-mode.el

It seems I'm talking to myself here, but I founnd a patch for a
previous version of ruby-mode.el by searching for "xemacs +
ruby-mode.el" from google, and did something similar for version 1.39,
and it seems to be working for me.

*************************************************************
--- ruby-mode.el	Sun Dec 23 10:28:58 2001
+++ ruby-mode.el.new	Sun Dec 23 10:44:16 2001
@@ -671,10 +671,6 @@
   (or (boundp 'font-lock-variable-name-face)
       (setq font-lock-variable-name-face font-lock-type-face))
 
-
-  (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
-	    '(lambda ()
-	       (make-local-variable 'font-lock-syntactic-keywords)
 	       (setq font-lock-syntactic-keywords
 		     '(
 		       ;; #{ }, #$hoge, #@foo are not comments
@@ -707,9 +703,14 @@
 			(4 (7 . nil)))		       
 		       ("^\\(=\\)begin\\(\\s \\|$\\)" 1 (7 . nil))
 		       ("^\\(=\\)end\\(\\s \\|$\\)" 1 (7 . nil))))
-	       (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
-	       (setq font-lock-defaults '((ruby-font-lock-keywords)
nil nil))
-	       (setq font-lock-keywords ruby-font-lock-keywords)))
+  (put major-mode 'font-lock-defaults
+       '((ruby-font-lock-keywords)
+         nil nil nil
+         beginning-of-line
+         (font-lock-syntactic-keywords
+          . ruby-font-lock-syntactic-keywords)))
+  
+
 
   (defun ruby-font-lock-docs (limit)
     (if (re-search-forward "^=begin\\(\\s \\|$\\)" limit t)

*************************************************************

-lw


On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 01:25:21 -0500, Le Wang <> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Anyone know what the story is with the XEmacs and ruby-mode.el?  I
>always get really weird errors, and when I have font-lock enabled and
>scroll thru a ruby file.  Here is a sample:
>
>-------------------------------------
>Signaling: (beginning-of-buffer)
>  signal(beginning-of-buffer nil)
>  scroll-signal-boundary-error(1 -30)
>  scroll-window-in-place(#<window on "jam" 0x2102> nil -1)
>  scroll-window(#<window on "jam" 0x2102> nil -1)
>  scroll-down(nil)
>  scroll-down-command(nil)
>  call-interactively(scroll-down-command)
>-------------------------------------
>
>
>
>or this baby when I have lazy-shot enabled:
>-------------------------------------
>Signaling: (invalid-function 1)
>  (1)
>  eval((1))
>  font-lock-fontify-keywords-region(1 1056 nil)
>  font-lock-default-fontify-region(1 1056 nil)
>  font-lock-fontify-region(1 1056)
>  lazy-shot-fontify-internal(#<buffer "jam"> 1 1038 t "")
>  lazy-shot-lock-extent(#<destroyed extent> nil)
>  lazy-shot-redisplay-function(#<destroyed extent>)
>-------------------------------------
>
>
>Matz keeps updating ruby-mode.el, (up to 1.39 now, I think).  But this
>problem is just not going away...
>
>
>-lw