Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but the current Ruby wordfile has the following issues:
1. Comments are only recognized if they are followed by a space character. This is tricky in Ruby, because #blah blah is a comment, but only if it appears outside of a double-quoted string.
2. non-string uses of the single and double-quote characters confuse the highlighting.
For example, if you type:
if blah =~ /[^a-z#']/ then
..The UEdit highlighter thinks that the single-quote was the beginning of a new string, and colorizes the rest of the file from that point on. You can trick it by ending that line with a fake comment: # '
I'm pretty sure that there are other quirks, but those are the two that come to mind first. FreeRIDE has immaculate Ruby highlighting and code-folding, but I've not found it to be particularly stable, and I can't live without UltraEdit's column mode.
Is it possible to use regular expressions inside the UltraEdit wordfile? Does UEStudio enhance wordfile support in any way?