should irb default to auto complete?

[Roger Pack]

Seems to me like it would be a very user friendly default to have irb
default to command completion.
I realize this is possible by setting it up manually but...default? no?
yes?
Thanks.
-=r

 

[Brian Candler]

Seems to me like it would be a very user friendly default to have irb
default to command completion.

It does for me, under Linux (Ubuntu's own version, and also compiled
from source).

Where are you running Ruby where it does not? It's probably a
platform-specific and/or installation problem.

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

It does for me, under Linux (Ubuntu's own version, and also compiled
from source).

Really? Are you sure your .irbrc doesn't require 'irb/completion'? Or
maybe there's an alias defined somewhere?

I've always had to do that with ubuntu, xandros, centos, mandrake, etc.