On Jul 24, 12:16 ¨Âí¬ ÂåòôòáÓãèáòð¼ìé®®®Àâåòôòáíóãèáòðæ®äå¾ ÷òïôåº > 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