I always have had USE_READLINE=true in my .irbrc and I am not sure what turning this off really does. I thought you need it for things like lookup up history of commands, up arrow navigation and CTR+R for searching the buffer, alos TabTab for completion lookup? I'll try to turn off readline and see if there are any unexpected consequences. any ideas about that?
marekj Watirloo: Semantic Page Objects in UseCases http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/ Support Watir Project http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2982 On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 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 > > > > This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended > recipients and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information which > may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not an > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy the > original message and any copies of the message as well as any attachments to > the original message. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Watir General" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Before posting, please read the following guidelines: > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
