From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-07-09T03:31:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ri no longer supports -f Tagged ? (Re: ruby-doc.org URL-based Documentation Queries not working?)

Dave Thomas wrote:

> 
> On Jul 8, 2004, at 10:59, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> If that is indeed the case (I'm checking this in the Ruby CVS code 
>> now)  than I need to find another way to parse and display the output 
>> of ri.
> 
> 
> The new version doesn't, but it would be fairly easy to add it you 
> wanted to. Or, you could just use
> 
>   ri -f html

That might work; I'll need to adjust the markup.

Odd. On my laptop, running ruby 1.8-1 (2004-01-27) -from the one-click 
installer, it works.  On my Windows PC, running what appears to be the 
same thing, I get

  Cannot load output format 'html'

Both my Windows machines have seen various reinstalls of assorted
versions of the one-click installer due to issues with some releases. 
The html formatter might not have been part of all of them.

My Linux box has ruby 1.8.1 (2003-2-25), and no 'html' formatter

Ruby-doc.org is running ruby 1.9.0 (2004-01-10) and it, too, complains
about 'html'

It appears to be part of 1.8.2, though.


Thanks,


James