Subject: bug#10280: ruby-mode.el - Unknown finder.el keyword: ruby

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 02:32:19 +0200

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> ruby.el reads:
>>
>>     ...
>>     ;; Keywords: languages ruby
>>     ;; Version: 1.0
>>
>> However word "ruby" is not in list returned by M-x finder-list-keywords.
>> Perhaps finder-list-keywords or ruby.el should be updated.
>
> Free-form user-defined keywords are allowed since the list of keywords is
> open-ended.  So this is rather a shortcoming of `finder-list-keywords'
> that doesn't yet list all keywords beyond a few of "official" ones.

Do we really want to change finder-list-keywords to list all keywords?
(For some definition of "all".)

Wouldn't that make the menu much harder to navigate?

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas