From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2009-04-04T03:06:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ri is suddenly empty

2009/4/3 matt neuburg <matt@tidbits.com>:
> Fernando Perez <pedrolito@lavache.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't understand what happened: today I wanted to look up for: ri
>> Array#unshift, and it had nothing:
>>
>> Enter the method name you want to look up.
>> You can use tab to autocomplete.
>> Enter a blank line to exit.
>>
>> >>
>>
>>
>> I tried other classes, and now I always get this error message. How to
>> fix that?
>
> Oooh, oooh, call on me teacher, call on me, I know I know. It's because
> you've defined an alias of "ri"; it now stands for "ri -i". When "ri"
> stands for "ri -i", it ignores the argument that follows. Instead, it
> presents the ">>" prompt, and *now* you can type the name of what you
> want to look up. So:

Then take it one step further: have it examine the command line, use
the arguments if any, and enter the interactive mode if none are
present ;-)

Thanks

Michal