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basic usability #775
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I'm having so many problems with irb. Basic usability issues. For example, if your config includes:
and you type
help
, you literally can't tell that you've just enteredri
mode.help
should help.ri
shouldri
.show_doc
just shouldn't be.cwws
andchws
are terribly named.Consider
cd
and... I dunno,pwd
?chws
doesn't accept..
and I can't figure out how to get out.chws
doesn't accept-h
.show_cmds
doesn't detail anything. There's no way to see help for a command.show_cmds
doesn't show any of the aliases.show_source
doesn't seem to be able to find ANY source for anything defined in the irb session.That's 10 minutes worth of investigation prompted by @st0012 saying this thing was ready and should go in our Gemfiles. I just don't think it is ready. I used to LOVE irb and resisted using pry for years, but ever since the irb overhaul, I have found it to be very unusable.
Please sit down with someone unfamiliar with
irb
and watch them fire it up and try to use it. Every friction point, every confusion, every broken expectation should be written up as an issue, prioritized, and fixed.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: