> PS > please consider avoiding top-posting, it is a bad habit :) Agreed.. sorry, gmail doesn't seem to have a preference and this one slipped through. On a different note, anyone familiar with FOX and/or IRB care to comment on the following? I've just taken a look at the source for WinIrb and was wondering how hard it would be to add an optional sidebar with a list of all declared local_variables and perhaps their values if they are trivial objects. I think this would be very useful for those shell sessions where you are making it up as you go along. Would this be difficult? Secondly, I wanted ot see if I could add tab completion, hooking the tab key up seems easy but what method should be called to get irb to return a list of possible solutions?