'quit' instead of 'exit' for irb?

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A suggestion: How about making ‘quit’ a synonym for ‘exit’ in irb? I
find myself mistakenly typing ‘quit’ all the time because that’s what
I use in other shell programs (e.g. MySQL client).

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Philip Mak wrote:

A suggestion: How about making ‘quit’ a synonym for ‘exit’ in irb? I
find myself mistakenly typing ‘quit’ all the time because that’s what
I use in other shell programs (e.g. MySQL client).

Just put ‘alias quit exit’ in your .irbrc file.

Or use ^D…