[–] comfypotato 3y 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. [–] s0l1dsnak3123 3y ago ↗ I didn't know that, what an interesting detail! [–] comfypotato 3y 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! [–] s0l1dsnak3123 3y ago ↗ It seems like Matz was the one who wrote the original ruby-mode! http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_m...Additionally, from the same article:> so, Matz's remark that he learned/created Ruby from reading emacs source code is genuine.
[–] s0l1dsnak3123 3y ago ↗ I didn't know that, what an interesting detail! [–] comfypotato 3y 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! [–] s0l1dsnak3123 3y ago ↗ It seems like Matz was the one who wrote the original ruby-mode! http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_m...Additionally, from the same article:> so, Matz's remark that he learned/created Ruby from reading emacs source code is genuine.
[–] comfypotato 3y 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! [–] s0l1dsnak3123 3y ago ↗ It seems like Matz was the one who wrote the original ruby-mode! http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_m...Additionally, from the same article:> so, Matz's remark that he learned/created Ruby from reading emacs source code is genuine.
[–] s0l1dsnak3123 3y ago ↗ It seems like Matz was the one who wrote the original ruby-mode! http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_m...Additionally, from the same article:> so, Matz's remark that he learned/created Ruby from reading emacs source code is genuine.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 17.0 ms ] threadSo the source here is a tad removed, but it sounded right to me!
Additionally, from the same article:
> so, Matz's remark that he learned/created Ruby from reading emacs source code is genuine.