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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 movemen
by 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 agoI didn't know that, what an interesting detail!
- comfypotato 3y agoMy 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 agoIt seems like Matz was the one who wrote the original ruby-mode! http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_my_life.html 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.