Tweaking Emacs for Ruby Development (opens in new tab)

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Ruby itself was developed specifically for Emacs. Decisions were made about syntax specifically because they did or did not work well with default Emacs movement and structure editing.

s0l1dsnak3123OP2y ago

I didn't know that, what an interesting detail!

comfypotato2y ago

My source is an Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua, and the guest mentioned that they heard it from the developer of Ruby.

So the source here is a tad removed, but it sounded right to me!

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comfypotato2y ago

Ruby itself was developed specifically for Emacs. Decisions were made about syntax specifically because they did or did not work well with default Emacs movement and structure editing.

s0l1dsnak3123OP2y ago

I didn't know that, what an interesting detail!

comfypotato2y ago

My source is an Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua, and the guest mentioned that they heard it from the developer of Ruby.

So the source here is a tad removed, but it sounded right to me!

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