* lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el (ruby-font-lock-keywords): Do not

highlight question marks in the method names as strings.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index d1613283bb7..37c2365cc60 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-07-16  Dmitry Gutov  <dgutov@yandex.ru>
+
+        * progmodes/ruby-mode.el (ruby-font-lock-keywords): Do not
+        highlight question marks in the method names as strings.
+
 2013-07-16  Jan Djärv  <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
 
         * frame.el (blink-cursor-blinks): New defcustom.
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el
index 0b83921504b..dc3dec87ba8 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el
@@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ See `font-lock-syntax-table'.")
      1 font-lock-negation-char-face)
    ;; character literals
    ;; FIXME: Support longer escape sequences.
-   '("\\?\\\\?\\S " 0 font-lock-string-face)
+   '("\\_<\\?\\\\?\\S " 0 font-lock-string-face)
    )
   "Additional expressions to highlight in Ruby mode.")