From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-07-28T02:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Columnize, irb, and ruby-debug

On 7/26/07, Rocky Bernstein <rocky.bernstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> The next step was to add the ability to show sorted and column-ordered lists
> in irb. So I added to my .irbrc a "ps" method to take a list sort it into
> columns and "pc" which does the same without sorting. (And if you look above
> you'll see this is also there right now in ruby-debug).
>
> So now here's the thing I've been puzzling over. It seems silly to make a
> package out of this one little class module. And although it can live inside
> ruby-debug, there's probably a better place for it to live so it can be used
> by irb, and ruby-debug and other places.
>
> Thoughts?

Perhaps as an extension to, or bundled with PrettyPrint/PP ?

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