From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-02-27T18:44:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11674] small ri patch

Hi,

Since ri now supports abbreviations via prefix matching we should be able
to give abbreviations of length 1. Patch is below.

Another thought on ri: I proposed some time ago that we should base a
simple documentation format on the formats used by Dave&Andy in the book
and now (in another form) in ri. I still think this would be a good
thing. Anyone else got ideas on this? Would it suffice if I/we do a simple
parser outputting stuff the way ri documentation is formatted? (Or is 
too much info lost there to get back to XML?) Would also
be good with a short list of advice on how to write docs the "pickaxe
way". Dave?

Regards,

Robert

--- ri.old      Tue Feb 27 09:04:56 2001
+++ ri  Tue Feb 27 10:31:22 2001
@@ -286,11 +286,11 @@

   case name

-  when /^[A-Z]\w+(::[A-Z]\w+)?$/
+  when /^[A-Z](\w+)?(::[A-Z](\w+)?)?$/
     describeClass(name)

-  when /^([A-Z]\w+(::[A-Z]\w+)?)(\.|\#|::)(.+)/
-    describeMethod($1, $3, $4)
+  when /^([A-Z](\w+)?(::[A-Z](\w+)?)?)(\.|\#|::)(.+)/
+    describeMethod($1, $5, $6)

   else
     findAndDescribe(name)