From: "Garriss, Michael" <Michael.Garriss@...>
Date: 2002-12-17T00:16:47+09:00
Subject: Re: irb auto completion

I'm just a newbie trying that's also trying to get auto-completion to work
but I might be able to help.  I think you have to run irb like this first:

irb --readline

However after doing that I get this from irb:

[local]frisco:mgarriss:~/lib/ruby/1.7> irb --readline
irb(main):001:0> require "irb/completion"   
NotImplementedError: The basic_word_break_characters=() function is
unimplemented on this machine
	from /home/mgarriss/lib/ruby/1.7/irb/completion.rb:185:in
`basic_word_break_characters='
	from /home/mgarriss/lib/ruby/1.7/irb/completion.rb:185
	from (irb):1:in `require'
	from (irb):1:in `irb_binding'
	from /home/mgarriss/lib/ruby/1.7/irb/workspace.rb:52:in
`irb_binding'
	from :0
Maybe IRB bug!!
irb(main):002:0> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Davis [mailto:jd204c@nih.gov]
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 2:18 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: irb auto completion
> 
> 
> I'm using Ruby 1.6.6 on Win XP.  Just installed the latest IRb and
> IRb-tools, hoping to get the auto-completion feature.  I get this
> error:
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32>irb -r irb/completion
> c:/Prog/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require': No such
> file to load -- readline (LoadError)
>         from c:/Prog/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/completion.rb:10
>         from c:/Prog/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/init.rb:218:in `require'
> ....
> I searched my system, but have no readline file.  Is it available for
> Windows?  Thanks in advance,
> 
> - Jim -
> 
>