From: Csaba Henk <csaba@..._for_avoiding_spam.org>
Date: 2005-04-02T21:34:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Open letter to anyone developing a Ruby IDE

On 2005-03-30, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> Have you used Readline tab completion in irb?  It is far from useful, 
> giving you too many potential completions from too far up the 
> inheritance tree.

From the readme of irb enhancements (http://www.creo.hu/~csaba/ruby/):

  irb-completion-enhanced.rb
  
  Context-sensitive completion for irb.
  
  [snip]
  
  There is one more feature: an attribute named watch_ancestors of
  IRB::InputCompletor. If is it set to true, method name completion will
  behave in the familiar way. If set to false, only the own methods of the
  object (and its class) are shown. And if it's nil, then each hit on the
  tab key switches between these two behaviours (this latter is the
  default). This is useful eg. when you want to explore a new ruby class
  (I guess at such an occasion your focus is not on being notified to the
  fact that the object responds to is_complex_yaml? ...)

Csaba