From: jd204NoSpam@... (James Davis)
Date: 2002-12-17T06:24:07+09:00
Subject: Re: irb auto completion

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:16:47 +0900, "Garriss, Michael"
<Michael.Garriss@abacus-direct.com> wrote:

>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> 

Thanks for writing.  I've tried both 
'irb --readline' and 'irb -r irb/completion'.  Both give errors
(different from each other and from yours).  The latter command came
from the book "Ruby Developer's Guide".  This issue was discussed here
in the past, but I think in that case the user was on unix, not Win32.

- Jim -