From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-05-10T22:32:26+09:00
Subject: Re: xemacs & mode-ruby.el, broken ?

Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> At 23:47 09/05/2002 +0900, you wrote:
> >At Thu, 9 May 2002 21:53:30 +0900,
> >Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
> > > Thanks. I am still having difficulties with syntax highlighting
> > > (besides the ones with regexps). It does not work when I open a file &
> > > to manually force it I have to decheck/recheck...
> > >    Options/Syntax Highlighting/In This Buffer
> > > ... rather inconvenient.
> >Concretely, in what case?
> >Nobu Nakada
> 
> When I open a Ruby file, it is displayed with some coloring, very little.
> Only comments and strings (both ' & " enclosed) are colored.
> 
> As a workaround I bound a key to ( font-lock-fontify-buffer ) to force
> fontifying. Works for me.

I found that with XEmacs I have to add a (load "font-lock") to the
start of my .emacs file. Without, ruby-mode doesn't detect the
presence of the font-lock package.


Dave