GNU bug report logs - #48180
ruby-mode.el: fix font lock for puts and printf

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Message #21 received at 48180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Steve Purcell <steve <at> sanityinc.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 48180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#48180: ruby-mode.el: fix font lock for puts and printf
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 08:31:53 +1200

On 4 May 2021, at 04:42, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> wrote:
> 
>> Is that important? Like, is anybody likely to call either without args?
>> font-lock is not a precise facility (that anything depends on), so we can
>> afford to be wrong in 0.01% cases.
> 
> It always bothered me that in ruby-mode highlighting was broken for printing
> without arguments, but I had no time to investigate.  Now finally this is fixed.
> Maybe some other printing like "p" could be fixed as well, but the
> already fixed "puts" and "print" is an improvement.


Yes, it’s actually pretty common to just use “puts” without args to print an empty line.

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