From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-02-20T03:36:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add persistent history to irb

Hi --

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2005, at 06:34, David A. Black wrote:
>
>> Hi --
>> 
>> I've often wanted the up-arrow in irb to give me my history from the
>> previous session.  Well, now it does :-)  Patch follows, in the hope
>> that this (or equivalent) might make it into the real irb.
>
> How will this conflict with using the Readline powered history?
>
> http://rubygarden.org/ruby?Irb/TipsAndTricks

Cool -- I hadn't seen that one before.

> Perhaps the Readline-powered version and the simple version could be added to 
> an irb/history.rb, and if Readline doesn't exist, fall back to the simpler 
> version?

I'm not sure what you mean by "Readline-powered" vs. "simple".  Both
versions depend on the presence of Readline.  I'm not sure how else
one would do it.


David

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David A. Black
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