From: Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2004-07-31T02:31:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ri-emacs

Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:

>>Yep, it's failing because it can't load 'rdoc/ri/display'; the class
>>RiDisplay seems to be defined in $RUBY/bin/ri in my installed version. My
>>RDoc seems to be 1.0pr1 - what version were you working on?
>>
> 
> 
> ri --version returns V1.0pr1 (on Debian linux).  

> My version of ri contains only:
> ri = RiDriver.new
> ri.process_args
> 
> The obvious solution would be to include the RiDisplay class
> in the package, and load it if necessary.  I still wonder
> why it is there, though.  (Perhaps the authors of ri didn't
> expect the implementation to be used?)

Strange. I did try that, which required a small tweak to the constructor 
copied from ri. It does then hang on a command prompt, waiting. However, 
it also does this when I run it from within Emacs, rather than prompting 
for the search string when I do M-x ri. I have to quit out of this using 
C-g. strange.

thanks
alex