From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T09:15:49+09:00
Subject: Re: breakpoint and scite

Bret Pettichord wrote:

> I often teach ruby to people and usually use scite to do this. It's 
> quick and easy and F5 is very convenient. I also use scite when i am 
> working on lab machines. (Otherwise I use eclipse when i can.)
> 
> When i use breakpoint with a script that i am running from scite using 
> F5, the irb session shows up in the scite sidebar. I can type at this 
> prompt, and it works, but backspaces and paste don't register. So i have 
> to be a really good typist. (Don't register means that the text looks 
> right, but then i get an error from IRB that shows that it didn't get 
> the pasted text and did get the text i thought had backspaced away.)

This is no fix, but could solve your trouble anyway: I'm working a GUI 
front end for ruby-breakpoint which will probably be launchable by doing 
breakpoint() in the future.

Here's an early screenshot:

* http://flgr.dyndns.org/highlights-all-the-way.png

Thoughts?