From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2001-12-02T04:24:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27212] Re: Musing

Tobias Reif (2001-12-01 22:46):

> Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> 
> 
> >>A nice Ruby editor would be cool as one of the apps:
> >>one feature might be: 'select a portion of code, then hit the "run" 
> >>button'
> >>
> >suppose your code is in the middle of the file.
> >do you want to run require- and include-Statements, too?
> 
> 
> ermm... that could be settable in preferences, along with other 
> deatils(?), for example.

which makes it hard to use. 
it would be nice, if you could create a snapshot of a ruby process
like some lisps and smalltalks do. throw in something like FORGET
from FORTH and you're neatly set.

oh, for those non-FORTHers out there :-)
FORGET xxx erases all of the definitions made after xxx, which comes
in handy, if you need to restore some prior state.

> 
> The whole thing would be handy for those irb 1/2/3 liners; I often don't 
> require('') stuff for those.

some lisps (e.g. Macintosh Common Lisp) have this, i.e. you
type some definition into an editor window, hit Enter with
the cursor after the closing ) and the current expression is
sent to the active Listener which evaluates it.

> 
> Which Win editor has the capability of running portions of
> selected code?

gvim should. never tried it.

s.
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