From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T13:31:44+09:00
Subject: Re: bit/byte operations

Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> 
>  Is there a way to search "inexactly" or "blurred" (or how should I
>  say in English?) with ri?
> 
>  I have the problem, that, when I am searching something, I dont know
>  exactly, how it is spelled or to what Class it is assigned to.
> 
>  I didn't find an option for ri to do something like 
> 
> 		  grep -ril <keyword> *

Not through ri itself, but ri gets its data from a set of yaml files, so 
you could grep those.

Or, rub-a-dub-dub, use yubnub:

http://www.yubnub.org/

and the grd (Google ruby-doc) command

Google accepts assorted quasi regexen stuff, too.

James

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