From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-07-24T13:16:23+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on rewriting irb?

Hi,

Am Freitag, 24. Jul 2009, 03:50:06 +0900 schrieb ghorner:
>   I wrote up a post on a mini irb which does better irb completion,
> persistent history and error handling in 7 lines:
> http://tagaholic.me/2009/07/23/mini-irb-and-mini-script-console.html
> 
> If you're curious the code looks like this:
> [...]

I'm very disappointed about Irb. The thing I miss most is some way
to say "Examine the object now" while debugging. To be honest I
wrote me my own interactive Ruby and I didn't use Irb for about a
year. I would like to publish my one but the thing leaving me
dissatified is the Readline library. A real good command line
library would allow me to do things like entering my favourite
editor, be able to yield coloured output at the prompt and maybe
the entered line, a configurable history management, and much
more. The objects environment sould be left untouched; for example
the "exit" method shouldn't be redefined, rather something like
the PostgreSQL \q command should replace it.

I would like to share my approach for further development.

Bertram


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Bertram Scharpf
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