From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T03:20:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Lower verbosity in IRB?

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:36 PM, F. Senault <fred@lacave.net> wrote:
> (BTW, for the original poster, to slurp a whole file, var =
> File.read("...") works too.)

Fred, nice trick with .read I like that.

Anyway, as far as what you, and several other posters posted, I
basically didn't want to mess about with that sort of thing anymore, I
wanted the "right way" (tm).  Reason being, you always seem to forget
to put in the lines for little workarounds like that when you start,
and end up having to wait a few minutes for the 84 megs of text to get
shoved through ssh and rendered on the terminal.  Which is what
happened to me when I posted :)

What Stephan & Zhao mentioned is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks all!

PS: typing when Joel posted... That is a really, really neat trick.
I'm gonna try that on my .irbc soon!  Heck, maybe that should be in
the _default_ irbc.  Hint hint if any maintainers read random posts
like this.........