On 11/23/06, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp / acm.org> wrote:
>
> FastRI is an alternative to the ri command-line tool. It is *much* faster, and
> also allows you to offer RI lookup services over DRb. FastRI is smarter than
> ri, and can find classes anywhere in the hierarchy without specifying the
> "full path". FastRI can perform full-text searching. Its RubyGems support is
> better than ri's, and it knows which gem a method/class definition came from.
>
Thanks, this looks nice. However,

$ fri flatten
------------------------------------------------------ Multiple choices:

     Array#flatten, Set#flatten
$ fri A#flatten
nil

so I need to fully spell out which one I'm interested in. Could you
please add a simple string distance or something like that so that one
can use shortcuts, ie fri A#flatten should choose Array#flatten since
it is the closest one. If I don't misremember we discussed and added
this functionality to ri way back then.

/Robert Feldt