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