Problems with ruby mode in Xemacs

ruby-talk
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The problem is simple: I can get it to work. I’m running Xemacs
21.4.6 from Debian woody. The ruby-elisp files are stored here:
/usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ruby-lisp

I presume that I’m supposed to install ruby-mode by installing them
via the xemacs package installer, but no go.

What should I do? I would really like to use xemacs as my ruby
debugger. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated!

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William Crowshaw

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wcrowshaw@yahoo.com (W. Crowshaw) writes:

The problem is simple: I can get it to work. I’m running Xemacs
21.4.6 from Debian woody. The ruby-elisp files are stored here:
/usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ruby-lisp

Assuming you meant “I can’t get it to work”, what is the problem? Does it
load? Does it turn all your code chartreuse?

To load ruby-mode, add

(autoload 'ruby-mode "ruby-mode" "Ruby mode" t nil)

to your .emacs file.

Does load-path include /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ruby-lisp? If not, you
can add

(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ruby-lisp")

before trying to load ruby-mode.

Jim

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Thanks for your help. Unfortunately your suggestions didn’t work.

What I meant by “can’t get it to work” was that I get no syntax
highlight when
I hope a ruby file. Nor am I able to invoke ruby in the debugger mode
to debug my ruby script.

Incidentally, when I open a .rb file, xemacs says:
“Loading inf-ruby…done”

Any other advice?

Jim Menard jimm@io.com wrote in message news:wsqhe2qij8y.fsf@io.com…

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wcrowshaw@yahoo.com (W. Crowshaw) writes:

The problem is simple: I can get it to work. I’m running Xemacs
21.4.6 from Debian woody. The ruby-elisp files are stored here:
/usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ruby-lisp

Assuming you meant “I can’t get it to work”, what is the problem? Does it
load? Does it turn all your code chartreuse?

To load ruby-mode, add

(autoload 'ruby-mode "ruby-mode" "Ruby mode" t nil)

to your .emacs file.

Does load-path include /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ruby-lisp? If not, you
can add

(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ruby-lisp")

before trying to load ruby-mode.

Jim