From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T13:00:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code -- Get Ready for the Proposal Window

Martin DeMello wrote:
> On 3/14/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>> Scite is a bit like that, at least the version shipped with the Windows
>> One-Click Installer. A DrRuby would be spectacular, though!
> 
> Scite misses out what I consider the core, practically raison d'etre
> feature - the ability to click a button and start a clean IRB session
> which autoloads the program you're typing into the editor. Let's say,
> for instance, that I'm developing some complicated mathematical
> algorithm. I can get a bit of it right, click "reload", play about for
> a while in IRB using the functions I've already defined, till I nail
> the next function, then add it to the program and hit 'reload' again.
> This was my favourite DrScheme feature. I think QBasic also allowed
> this to a certain extent, though I could be misremembering (that was a
> very underappreciated IDE, though).
> 
> martin

Does your vision include a button to "add it to the program" too? That 
is, a button (or other feature) to copy the text of the new function 
into a buffer so it can be easily pasted into the source, without having 
to edit out irb prompts?

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