From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-12-09T06:07:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Emacs


Wooohoo!!!!
YYYiiiipppeee!!!
Yabadabadoo!!

Thanks David, that worked.

I didn't  read inf-ruby.el because I didn't think it would have anything
human-readable (I know so little Lisp that it might as well be Greek to
me).

Cheers,
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assisant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
> > Sigh.  I like Emacs, but I always struggle configuring it.
> >
> > Thanks for helping.  I do appreciate it.  Perhaps you can tell me what I'm
> > doing wrong:
> >
> > I made ~/elisp and put ruby-mode.el in it (as well as the other *.el files
> > from the Ruby distribution).
> >
> > I didn't have a ~/.xemacs/init.el file, so I created ~/.xemacs and
> > ~/.xemacs/init.el and put what you wrote on it.  It didn't work.
> >
> > I also added it to ~/.emacs (XEmacs seems to read configuration from
> > there), but it didn't work either.
> >
> > By "it didn't work" I mean that when I open a '.rb' file I see no
> > indication that the Ruby mode is loaded.  For instance, I can't get it to
> > do syntax highlighting.
> >
> > Can you think of anything else that I might be doing wrong?
>
> In your ~/.emacs you need to make the association between the .rb
> extension and ruby-mode.  Try putting this in your .emacs and then
> start up a .rb file (this comes from some instructions in
> inf-ruby.el):
>
> (autoload 'ruby-mode "ruby-mode"
>   "Mode for editing ruby source files" t)
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>       (append '(("\\.rb$" . ruby-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
> (setq interpreter-mode-alist (append '(("ruby" . ruby-mode))
>                               interpreter-mode-alist))
>
>
> and that should hook into loading ruby-mode.el.
>
>
> David
>
> --
> David Alan Black
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> work: blackdav@shu.edu
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>
>
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