From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-03-11T01:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby power tools


"Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@adslhome.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:pan.2004.03.10.16.22.40.269464@adslhome.dk...
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:04:33 +0000, gabriele renzi wrote:
>
> > il Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:55:08 +0100, shasckaw <shasckaw@skynet.be> ha
> > scritto::
> >
> >>Has anybody already thought about a project like "Perl Power Tools"
but
> >>in ruby? Here is the link: http://www.perl.com/language/ppt/
> >>What do you think about that idea?
> >>
> >
> > from time to time people suggest it, togheter with a rubyshell.
> > But I don't think there is something real to look at.
> > That would be cool, anyway :)
>
> A rubyshell would be nice to have.
>
> At the moment I am using tcsh, which has good tab-completion features.

.... but uuuuugly scripting.  Did you try bash?  See
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#SEC113

> However it would be really sweet if the completion code were Ruby.
>
>
> Here is some of my current completion rules (not pretty)
>
> complete make 'p@1@`awk -F: '\''/^[^ \t#\/][^=:]*:/ {print $1 }'\''
[Mm]akefile `@'
> complete gv             "n/*/f:*{$PS,$PDF,$GZ}/"
> complete man 'p/*/c/'
> complete {vim,vi,more,less} 'n/*/f:^*.{o,a,dvi,gz,z,Z,zip,tgz}/'
> complete unzip 'n/*/f:*.{zip,ZIP}/'
> complete ruby 'n/*/f:*.{rb,erb}/'

Hm, AFAIK irb uses readline.  Maybe one can set some readline hooks and do
implement completion there?  Then irb =~ rubysh.

Kind regards

    robert