O Hi :-) I thought of this moments ago and I think it would improve the already awesome manual to something at least an order of magnitude higher in usefulness (although it could step on Hackety Hack's toes).
Could you either make the runnable code snippets editable, or add a general editbox for trying things out while browsing the docs? Assuming you 1) like the idea and 2) pick the second option, I really like the impromptu <http://impromptu.moso.com.au/> (mac only) editor, which has been though of for live musical composition, where you can select and evaluate directly some portion of the code in the editor. It's IMO a good compromise between an editor and a REPL. This editor also has the ability to evaluate the immediately surrounding block of code with a quick key combo (ctrl+space), which is awesome when programming live, but not as useful for shoes (or HH), although it would still be neat. It's rather trivial to implement in a S-exp based language, I assume it would be less so for Ruby... Kind regards, Pierre-Yves _______________________ Pierre-Yves Gérardy, MD Headache Research Unit University of Liege Citadelle Hospital (University dept. of Neurology), Boulevard du XIIe de Ligne, 1 B4000 Liège, Belgium Phone : +32 (0) 4 225 71 41 Mobile : +32 (0) 472 543 727 Fax : +32 (0) 4 223 88 07 Department Secretary : Ms Groven : +32 (0) 4 225 63 91
