[ANN] Tab Completition for Ruby

ruby-talk
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I hope, that I have not reinvented the wheel once again, but I just found
a neat way to make ri behave better. I use a short script to make bash
complete class, method and module names when pressing tab.
$ ri Array#f<TAB>
I thought there might be some people interested in this. If it is already
common knowledge, I apologize for polluting this newsgroup.

Here is the neccesary code:
___/etc/bash_completition.d/ri___
# Debian GNU/Linux ri completion

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# Copyright 2004 Brian Schröder <mail@brian-schroeder.de>
# License: GNU GPL v2 or later

have ri &&
_ri()
{
  local cur conns
    
  COMPREPLY=()
  cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}

  if [ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ]; then
    COMPREPLY=( $(ri -l | grep "^${cur}") )
  fi

  return 0
}
[ "$have" ] && complete -F _ri ri

## based on:
## Debian GNU/Linux pon/poff(1) completion
## Copyright 2002 Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org>
## License: GNU GPL v2 or later
___EOF___

more information at:
http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/programmable_completition.html

regards,

Brian Schröder
--
Brian Schröder
http://www.bad-idea.net/

2

hotness. i'm especially a fan of
http://whytheluckystiff.net/clog/ruby/tabCompletionInIRb.html

peace,
-z

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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:40:43 +0900, Brian Schroeder <spam0504@bssoftware.de> wrote:

I hope, that I have not reinvented the wheel once again, but I just found
a neat way to make ri behave better. I use a short script to make bash
complete class, method and module names when pressing tab.
$ ri Array#f<TAB>
I thought there might be some people interested in this. If it is already
common knowledge, I apologize for polluting this newsgroup.

Here is the neccesary code:
___/etc/bash_completition.d/ri___
# Debian GNU/Linux ri completion
# Copyright 2004 Brian Schröder <mail@brian-schroeder.de>
# License: GNU GPL v2 or later

have ri &&
_ri()
{
        local cur conns

        COMPREPLY=()
        cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}

        if [ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ]; then
                COMPREPLY=( $(ri -l | grep "^${cur}") )
        fi

        return 0
}
[ "$have" ] && complete -F _ri ri

## based on:
## Debian GNU/Linux pon/poff(1) completion
## Copyright 2002 Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org>
## License: GNU GPL v2 or later
___EOF___

more information at:
http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/programmable_completition.html

regards,

Brian Schröder
--
Brian Schröder
http://www.bad-idea.net/

3

If someone is interested in it, I've made a better regexp for tab
completition. If you replace

- COMPREPLY=( $(ri -l | grep "^${cur}") )
+ COMPREPLY=( $(ri -l | grep "^${cur}\|#${cur}\|::${cur}|.${cur}") )

you get also completition on
$ ri has<TAB>
Array#hash Complex#hash ...

Have fun,

Brian

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Brian Schröder
http://www.brian-schroeder.de/