Tweaking Emacs for Ruby Development

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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.

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

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!

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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