From: 520079130762-0001@... (Michael Neumann)
Date: 2002-12-18T07:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: irb auto completion

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 22:24, James Davis wrote:
> 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.

Auto-completion ('irb -r irb/completion') works fine with the Ruby-165-2
Installer. But note, that's the cygwin based version.

Auto-completion in 167-2 (native Win32) does not work for me on Win98. 
I haven't tried the 172 version yet, but I guess the above output is
from 172 and it does not seem to work.


Regards,

  Michael