From: Carl Parrish <cparrish@...>
Date: 2002-08-06T09:47:55+09:00
Subject: Re: yet another vim/ruby question

Ops I suddenly feel like I deleted some files I shouldn't have Does this mean that there is a better Ruby syntax file somewhere that I should add to my system? Does anyone have a web page on hints and tips to coding ruby apps with VIM? For instance is there a way to run ruby apps from within vim? (I just figured out how to use ant from within vim hence the question). 

Carl P. 
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From: Doug Kearns <djkea2@mugca.its.monash.edu.au>
Date: 2002/08/05 Mon PM 08:14:00 EDT
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
Subject: Re: yet another vim/ruby question

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:48:15PM +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

<snip>
 
> I believe that my mods to the Ruby syntax file introduced folding.
> Basically, all I did was add "fold" to the lines that seemed
> appropriate, and when I did
> set fdm=syntax
> it worked.  So I admit that I was "meddling in the affairs of
> wizards", but I got away with it that time!  This post is to point
> out that I did not look in great detail at the syntax highlighting,
> and certainly not enough to correct this problem.

No, it looks like this problem has always been there, so unfortunately
we can't blame you for introducing it :-)
 
> It might be worth asking on the vim list how this should be fixed.
> Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other langauges with
> optional keywords in this sort of context, though I know I have
> encountered this sort of thing before, because I never thought it
> odd when I saw it in Ruby.

Yes, this sort of thing makes it a _lot_ of fun to write a syntax file
for Ruby ... *sigh*

Regards,
Doug
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