From: Martin Duerst <duerst@...>
Date: 2007-12-13T17:01:17+09:00
Subject: Re: RDoc + irb (Was: Fix e2mmap.rb for 1.9)

Hello Dave,

While we are discussing RDoc, I'd like to take the chance and bring
up a point that always has bothered me: RDoc uses frames in a way
that makes it impossible to bookmark e.g. individual classes or
methods. As an example, I can go to
http://rdoc.sourceforge.net/rd/doc/index.html. I can then click
on the class CGI (top middle), but the link doesn't change at
all, so I can't bookmark that class. Also, I can't send pointers
to that class to others (unless I peek behind the scenes,
which shouldn't be necessary). It would be really great if
this could be fixed.

Regards,    Martin.

At 15:19 07/12/13, Dave Thomas wrote:
>
>On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:11 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>
>> ruby_parser is pure ruby, so that should be ok, but I'm not clear  
>> what 1.9's parser output has to do with eliminating the dependency  
>> on IRB. We expose JRuby AST (plus comment nodes) directly if  
>> someone really wants to use it, but we strongly advise against  
>> depending on the AST structure in any way since it changes over time.
>
>
>Actually, I wasn't talking about removing the irb dependency--there  
>isn't one, because I copied the code in and hacked it (a lot). I was  
>simply suggesting removing the e2mmap dependency in rdoc.
>
>
>Dave
>


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