From: Brett Williams <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2002-02-02T04:35:04+09:00
Subject: Re: latest ruby-mode.el messing up c++ mode fontification

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "latest ruby-mode.el messing up c++ mode fontification"
>     on 02/02/01, Brett Williams <brett_williams@agilent.com> writes:
> 
> |Is ruby-mode changing some global fontification resources?  If I never
> |invoke ruby-mode, then the C++ code looks fine...
> 
> Here's the patch.
> 
> --- ruby-mode.el      2002/01/25 08:22:11     1.45
> +++ ruby-mode.el      2002/02/01 04:00:52
> @@ -775,2 +775,4 @@
>  (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
> +            (make-local-variable 'font-lock-keywords)
> +            (make-local-variable 'font-lock-syntactic-keywords)
>  (setq font-lock-defaults '((ruby-font-lock-keywords) nil nil))

Thanks--works perfectly now.

One thing I have really missed is (show-paren-style (quote expression)) 
when using ruby.  I've written an equivalent (that highlights ruby ... end 
blocks, but it is a fragile hack (my emacs lisp skills are not up to par) 
which tends to break easily.

Does anyone else have something like this?