From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T08:19:45+09:00
Subject: Re: HighLine and Readline

On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> On 8/3/07, Ari Brown <ari@aribrown.com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Good news:
>>
>> In my quest for buffer a user's input serverside, I have found an
>> answer (which is rather easy).
>> Oh, and I got HighLine working over sockets.
>>
>> I need to use HighLine::Question with the Readline attribute.
>>
>> But unfortunately, according to the documentation I found, using the
>> readline attribute will make readline be a ruby-rebel and use it's
>> own input and output streams ($stdin and $stdout,  I assume).
>>
>> So my question is this: How can I make the readline attribute use
>> specific input and output streams?
>>
>> I'm imaging something like this (it is probably waaaaaaay wrong):
>>
>> a = HighLine.new(@sock, @sock)
>> a.ask("monkey? ") {|q| q.readline(@sock, @sock) }
>
> Here's the relevant source, as you can see it ignores your input  
> stream.

If you know how to point Readline at another IO, we take patches.  ;)

James Edward Gray II