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Ara.T.Howard

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Mar 2, 2007, 3:14:04 PM3/2/07
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i looked forever, didn't find this, and am posting for posterity

harp:~ > cat .irbrc
IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE] ][:RETURN]=''


harp :~ > irb
irb(main):001:0> 42
irb(main):002:0> 43
irb(main):003:0> puts 42
42
irb(main):004:0> p 42
42
irb(main):005:0> p 'no echo'
"no echo"
irb(main):006:0> 'no echo'


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Giles Bowkett

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Mar 2, 2007, 3:16:59 PM3/2/07
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Joel VanderWerf

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Mar 11, 2007, 4:24:21 AM3/11/07
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Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Ara.T.Howard <ara.t....@noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>
>> i looked forever, didn't find this, and am posting for posterity
>>
>> harp:~ > cat .irbrc
>> IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE] ][:RETURN]=''
>>
>> harp :~ > irb
>> irb(main):001:0> 42
>> irb(main):002:0> 43
>> irb(main):003:0> puts 42
>> 42
>> irb(main):004:0> p 42
>> 42
>> irb(main):005:0> p 'no echo'
>> "no echo"
>> irb(main):006:0> 'no echo'
>
>
>
> Hmm, that's pretty neat. It seems like it only works in .irbrc. It'd be
> nice
> if one could turn that off in the middle of a session in irb. Still, it's
> nice
> to know it can be turned off at all! Thanks.

You can turn it on and off by destructively modifying the string, this way:

irb(main):027:0> IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE] ][:RETURN]
=> "=> %s\n"
irb(main):028:0> IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE]
][:RETURN].replace('')
irb(main):029:0> 1+2
irb(main):030:0> IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE]
][:RETURN].replace("=> %s\n")
=> "=> %s\n"
irb(main):031:0> 1+2
=> 3

It should be pretty easy to define a function in your .irbrc that wraps
this up nicely....

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Rick DeNatale

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Mar 12, 2007, 10:40:25 AM3/12/07
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On 3/12/07, Matt Mower <matt....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/03/07, Joel VanderWerf <vj...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >
> > irb(main):028:0> IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE]
> > ][:RETURN].replace('')
> > irb(main):029:0> 1+2
> >
>
> Is this bound to some specific version of Ruby/IRB because it doesn't seem
> to be working for me either in .irbrc or IRB itself:

>
> >> IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE] ][:RETURN].replace( "" )

I put this in my .irbc

module IRB
def self.result_format
conf[:PROMPT][conf[:PROMPT_MODE]][:RETURN]
end

def self.result_format=(str)
result_format.replace(str)
end

def self.show_results
self.result_format = "=> %s\n"
end

def self.hide_results
self.result_format = ''
end
end

rick@frodo:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> 1+2
=> 3
irb(main):002:0> IRB.result_format
=> "=> %s\n"
irb(main):003:0> IRB.hide_results
irb(main):004:0> 1+2
irb(main):005:0> IRB.show_results
=> "=> %s\n"
irb(main):006:0> 1+2
=> 3
irb(main):007:0>

I'm not sure that I'm in love with my naming, but it does seem to
work.

One thing I just discovered. I've got a few different versions of irb
installed.

If I try to run irb1.8.5 it doesn't seem to find ~/.irbc If I
symlinked ~/.irb1.8.5rc to ~/.irbrc it seemed to work.

YMMV


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Joel VanderWerf

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Mar 12, 2007, 12:54:12 PM3/12/07
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Matt Mower wrote:
> On 11/03/07, Joel VanderWerf <vj...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> irb(main):028:0> IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE]
>> ][:RETURN].replace('')
>> irb(main):029:0> 1+2
>>
>
> Is this bound to some specific version of Ruby/IRB because it doesn't seem
> to be working for me either in .irbrc or IRB itself:
>
>>> IRB.conf[:PROMPT][ IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE] ][:RETURN].replace( "" )
> => ""
>>> 2 + 3
> => 5
>
> Alia:~/Projects/cominded/chitchat matt$ irb -v
> irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)
>
> Alia:~/Projects/cominded/chitchat matt$ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-darwin8.8.2]


Works for me with the same irb version as yours, and ruby-1.8.4 and also
ruby-1.8.6-preview3, on ubuntu. Haven't tried 1.8.5 though.

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