[TxMt] Interactive Shell for irb

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Am 22.12.2007 um 14:33 schrieb Hans-Jörg Bibiko:
>> Hi,
>>
>> here comes the VERY VERY work in progress irb bundle. (It's only a  
>> clone of my my Rdaemon, but one should understand the workflow)
>> If someone is interested, give me a hint.

Very/Merry-Big Congrats for this Hans-Jörg Bibiko,

a couple of month ago a thread about "command-completion" showed up  
where you and Thomas Allyot were pretty active. It's aim was to end  
up with a sort of universal-protocol for command-completion inside  
TextMate. At that time i tried to use the command-completion provided  
by the iPython-shell and make this usable inside TM. The iPython- 
shell belongs to THE tools for interactive work with Python and i  
guess similar can be said about irb-shell for Ruby. I have not  
published my 'framework' which was based on 'expect' at first and  
later on remote-object-lib and a tiny daemon-like extension for the  
shell. Though it works for me i found out that certain limitations  
will remain, as long as TM doesn't provide a sort of interface/ 
protocol for smart enhancements like these.
Having this said, i truly welcome the tight integration of the irb- 
shell that you've presented here. I want to clearly point out that if  
this will remain the only scripting-language-integration, then maybe  
TM-Users who are not that much interested in the Ruby-Dialect but  
prefer Python, Perl, Lua ... - u name it - might be rethink their  
preferred editor.

just my 20c, merry christmas, andreas