"Richard" <RLMuller / comcast.net> wrote: [...] Try giving your script an extension of '.rbw' instead of '.rb' I use RDE for Ruby, so I'm not a SciTE doctor but I dislike consoles so I changed the 'SciTE\ruby.properties' so that they both behave the same way. 'SciTE\SciTEDoc.html' describes these things. if PLAT_WIN font.base=font:Andale Mono,size:11 # command.go.*.rb=cmd /c ruby $(FileNameExt) < con: > con: 2>&1 # command.go.subsystem.*.rb=1 command.go.*.rb=rubyw $(FileNameExt) command.go.subsystem.*.rb=1 command.go.*.rbw=rubyw $(FileNameExt) command.go.subsystem.*.rbw=1 command.help.*.rb=$(CurrentWord)!D:\ruby\ProgrammingRuby.chm command.help.subsystem.*.rb=4 command.help.*.rbw=$(CurrentWord)!D:\ruby\ProgrammingRuby.chm command.help.subsystem.*.rbw=4 if PLAT_GTK command.go.*.rb=ruby $(FileNameExt) Unless you installed over the 1.41 version, you should still have your old 'ruby.properties' file in a Ruby sub-directory. If so, compare the two. It sounds like your previous version was tuned correctly for your needs. I don't get a DOS window because I've told it I don't want one. Your version of Windows isn't relevant here, I think. HTH, daz