Strange Syhtax Highlighting in Ruby

[kaibioinfo]

Hi,

while I really like the Seti theme, the syntax style is really strange. I have the feeling it is heavily javascript optimized and not really tested for other languages.

For Ruby the highlightings seems totally arbitrary. Just a few examples:

• Member variables in ruby always begin with a '@' character. The '@' character is highlighted in blue while the rest of the name is highlighted in green. I assume that the ruby plugin of atom marks '@' as keyword, which is wrong, although for some other plugins it may be helpful to distinguish between the variable name prefix and the rest of the name.
• function arguments are colored blue, while local variables are colored white. Function arguments are blue, too
• common functions (I guess they are marked as keyword internally, again somewhat wrong) are colored green like member variables, which is really strange
• class names are colored blue like functions and arguments and strings and regexps

I think I stop here. In general there are very few colors. Often, the same color is used for completely different syntax elements (class names and strings), while different colors are used for very similar syntax elements (arguments and local variables)

[jesseweed]

That's correct, it's mostly optimized/tested in JS & CSS. I can take a stab at improving it when I get some time, but don't write much Ruby so we'll see how close I can get.

Feel free to update for Ruby and send a pull request :)

[gildo]

any update?

[eyamenko]

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