On Jun 20, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Chuck Brotman wrote: > When using the irb I sometimes end up in a state where hitting > enter only > gives me a new prompt. I understand that I've (somehow) gotteninto > the irb's > line continuation mode. It seems that anything I type at this point > gets > swallowed up. Is there some way to get out of this, without > exiting from > the irb altogether? Hmm, could you show us some examples? James Edward Gray II