[TxMt] Ruby (Un)Comment command

[William D. Neumann]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Chris Thomas wrote:

> If Ruby 1.8 isn't installed in /usr/bin, you'll need to specify the full path 
> to it. Ruby's default install location is /usr/local, so I'd guess that you 
> need:
>
> /usr/local/bin/ruby -s ...

OK, that fixed the first problem... The ruby in /usr/bin was v1.6.8, and 
TextMate was using that version instead of the 1.8.1 installed via 
Fink.  However, now that I'm using  the correct version, I'm having new, 
exciting issues...

/Users/wneuman/Library/Dev/TextMate/comment.rb:23: 
invalid regular expression; there's no previous pattern, to which '*' 
would define cardinality at 6: /^\s*(*(.*)*)/ (RegexpError)

Im guessing that this problem is stemming from the OCaml comment 
delimiters being "(*" and "*)", which seem to be messing up the regexp 
created in line 24 of the script.  I'm guessing that they're not being 
escaped when comment_expr is created, however, escaping them up when 
they're defined in line 16 (either manually or via Regexp.escape) wraps 
the block with escaped delimiters "\(\*" and "\*\)" -- this also breaks 
uncommenting.

Any Ruby speakers have a fix for this?

William D. Neumann

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