From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2009-02-22T02:14:40+09:00
Subject: ask ri for the other squeeze

First off, may I say that ri, with its recent improvements, is now
useful to me for the first time since I started using ruby? With the
spaces after the commas, the listing of a class's superclass, the
ability to search up the class hierarchy, and so forth, I can now
usually find what I'm looking for and read the result.

That said, there remain a few edge cases on my machine where ri seems to
break down. An example is String#squeeze, which comes up with an empty
description:

--------------------------------------------------------- String#squeeze
     squeeze(del=nil)

     From /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/site/String/cdesc-String.yaml
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     [no description]

There is, however, another String#squeeze that *does* have a
description. Where there's a choice like this, I'd like to see the one
with the description. I can say:

$ ri --no-site String#squeeze

and that does work, but it also causes a huge delay both now while the
cache is rebuilt and on the next ri search without --no-site while the
cache is rebuilt *again*. What I'd really like is syntax for choosing
between different String#squeeze. For example, maybe the -i interactive
option could give me the ability to enter numbers?

m.

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