From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T11:17:13+09:00
Subject: Re: 'quit' instead of 'exit' for irb?

Philip Mak wrote:
> 
> A suggestion: How about making 'quit' a synonym for 'exit' in irb? I
> find myself mistakenly typing 'quit' all the time because that's what
> I use in other shell programs (e.g. MySQL client).

Just put 'alias quit exit' in your .irbrc file.

Or use ^D...