Thanks for the clarification. I was not sure how the built-in ruby
language module syntax coloring was supposed to handle these words.

On Apr 6, 10:24 am, Fritz Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5 Apr 2009, at 11:19 AM, ctucker10 wrote:
>
> > I can see that 'comments' and 'string constants' are detected, but I
> > don't see any difference between 'keywords' (print, puts, gets, etc.)
> > and other text. Am I missing something?
>
> Strictly speaking, print, puts, gets, etc., aren't keywords; they are  
> methods of the Kernel module, as well as of class IO.
>
> I'm not saying syntax-coloring of those words wouldn't be handy, but  
> Bare Bones is on firm ground in not showing them as keywords. If it  
> really bothers you, you could write your own codeless language module  
> for Ruby (chapter 15 of the manual). Which is a pain, I admit.
>
> Maybe better, maybe slower, write to <[email protected]> and ask  
> them to include some common method names in the "predefined names" for  
> Ruby.
>
>         — F
>
> --
> Fritz Anderson -- Xcode 3 Unleashed: Now in its second printing -- 
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>  >

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