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> I'm very disappointed about Irb. The thing I miss most is some way
> to say "Examine the object now" while debugging. To be honest I

Ditto on the disappointment. You can use breakpoint for examining an
object at any point of your program.

> dissatified is the Readline library. A real good command line
> library would allow me to do things like entering my favourite
> editor, be able to yield coloured output at the prompt and maybe
> the entered line, a configurable history management, and much

Can't you enter what you need to via "system 'myeditor'"? Colored
output is
done ok with wirble. Readline::HISTORY can be as configurable as you
make it. Here's
my own history management module:
http://github.com/cldwalker/irbfiles/blob/6e5c6878ec2f3ca6f29c4751f64682e30af555b8/.irb/libraries/history.rb

> more. The objects environment sould be left untouched; for example
> the "exit" method shouldn't be redefined, rather something like
> the PostgreSQL \q command should replace it.

With the 7-liner in this post you could change 'exit' to '\q'.

> I would like to share my approach for further development.
Share more if you'd like.

Gabriel