Thanks for this! I've run into that same issue with irb from time to
time, but just chalked it up to dealing with it. I use irb a lot for
step by step development or concept testing before I invest in an
organized and commented script. I'm not sure how you're using the
#{libs} variable, so I omitted it for my own use and created a
shortcut to irb.bat with the other command line options.
Adam
On Feb 5, 1:02 pm, Alan Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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