[#4479] Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sascha Ebach <se@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2005/02/24
[#4482] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/02/25

Quoting se@digitale-wertschoepfung.de, on Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:22:34AM +0900:

[#4483] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/02/25

On 24 Feb 2005, at 19:51, Sam Roberts wrote:

[#4488] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/02/26

Quoting drbrain@segment7.net, on Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:43:31AM +0900:

[#4489] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/02/26

On 25 Feb 2005, at 16:03, Sam Roberts wrote:

Re: [PATCH] add persistent history to irb

From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-02-19 18:36:48 UTC
List: ruby-core #4450
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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