From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2003-06-10T05:21:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Using 'gets' with SciTe under Win2000


"Richard" <RLMuller@comcast.net> wrote in message news:32c026de.0306081458.2d1b5975@posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
>
> The following runs fine in a Command window:
>
>   print "Enter text: "
>   while gets
> chomp!
> puts 'Got "' + $_ + '"'
> print 'Enter more: '
>   end
>
> But running it in the SciTe 1.41 environment with Ruby 1.6.8, I get:
>
>   Enter text: IO_Test1.rb:2:in `gets': Bad file descriptor
> (Errno::EBADF)
>
> I've asked about this before on this NG, but wonder if anybody has an
> idea about how to make this work under SciTe.  It's my guess that
> SciTe doesn't want to put a cursor in its output pane and accept
> keystroke that it could pipe into the stdin stream.  Is that the end
> of the story?  Is there a more appropriate NG to post this question?
>
> TIA,
> Richard


I get the same on 1.41 (Win98se) with your script.

The STDIN Ruby sees is an IO object but with STDIN.fileno == -1
(should be 0).  My guess is that this was fixed long ago in
a later SciTE release.

I know not why the 1.41 relic is distributed.

There's a SciTE 1.52 'one-click' installer for Windows.
(Includes a shell extension which adds 'Edit with SciTE' to the
right-click context menu for all files.)

  http://gisdeveloper.tripod.com/scite.html

Just over 1MB (4min d/l @ 56K) - fits on a floppy.

Free of charge.
(Thanks - Neil Hodgson, Andre Burgaud, Bruce Dodson et al. :)))

It makes an excellent replacement for Notepad.

In this version, your script runs as you would expect.


daz