Another thing that would be awesome is forward and back arrows. Would be super!
Cheers Chris On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Pierre-Yves Gérardy <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
