Here is another cool trick I learned today.
I remember how cool it was when I found out about watir-console. You know,
that tiny program that's in the /watir/bin folder that automagically requires
watir for you when you want to perform some cool irb-style command line stuff
with watir?
However, I soon learned that watir-console has the same problem in the windows
command line that irb does; whenever you go over a certain command line limit
(somewhere around 80-100 characters) the command line just freaks out and skips
around a bunch of lines. It makes irb completely unusable and you have to
CTRL-C a bunch to get it back to sanity. Well, there is a way to fix this.
All you need to do is type "irb --noreadline" and command line sanity will be
restored.
So, I was a little sad that I couldn't do the same thing to
watir-console...until today. Since watir console is so simple, you just need
to do the same thing to it that you did on the irb command line.
Specifically, change:
exec "irb.bat #{$libs} -r rubygems -r irb/completion -r watir/irb-history -r
watir --simple-prompt --readline"
to
exec "irb.bat #{$libs} -r rubygems -r irb/completion -r watir/irb-history -r
watir --simple-prompt --noreadline"
I don't know why I didn't think about this earlier but oh well. I have
restored command line sanity to my environment and all is well.
Enjoy,
Alan
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