From: mark sparshatt <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2005-05-03T00:03:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Emacs vs. VI vs. IDE

William Morgan wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Nakamura's mail of 29 Apr 2005 (EDT):
> 
>>what features do a "properly embedded shell" have that a simple
>>"screen"-split at console (or simply multiple windows open) do not?
>>I'm not being sarcastic, i just want to know what i could be
>>missing...
> 
> 
> For languages with an interactive environment (like Ruby (irb) and R), a
> good Emacs mode will let you run the environment in a split screen with
> the code you're editing, and will make it easy to dump the current
> line/selection/function into the environment.
> 
> I haven't figured out how to do this with Ruby yet, but with R I just
> hit C-c M-f and whatever function the cursor is currently in gets dumped
> into the interactive environment and evaluated. Makes debugging easy.
> 

You can do this using inf-ruby.el

When in ruby mode it adds a command run-ruby which runs irb in a sub 
window and then allows you to copy code into it.

HTH

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Mark Sparshatt