On May 19, 9:16 ¨Âí¬ Íë ²· ¼èáìæãïõîôð®®®Àéîôåòçáôå®ãïí÷òïôåº > Calvin wrote: > > On May 19, 6:36 am, Martin DeMello <martindeme... / gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Yes, that's correct, as long as ruby1.9 is in your path. > > >> Also you can say cd ~/Desktop/programs rather than three separate cds. > >> And don't miss tab completion, if you're using bash. > > >> martin > > > Hi Martin, > > > I am using bash... what is "tab completion" and how do I do it? > > Start typing enough of the directory name, and by pressing tab bash will > finish it for you -- if what you have is enough to identify it uniquely. > > For example, if you are in /home/me and you want to get to > scripts/ruby/tests, try "cd scr" don't press return, press tab and scr > will expand to scripts, then "/ru" and do the same thing, then "/te" tab > and you'll have > cd scripts/ruby/tests > now you can hit return, and all you actually typed was cd > scr[TAB]/ru[TAB]/te[TAB] > > Hopefully that is clear enough...a lot of CLI (and GUI) apps use tab > completion (eg, google). > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. That's pretty useful information! Thanks a bunch for your time!