Bug #1145: IRB adds trailing quote to wtring methods when performing auto-completion

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: keiju (Keiju Ishitsuka)
• Target version: 1.9.3
• ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [powerpc-darwin8]

[gtoast (C I)]

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IRB adds a trailing quote to some method names when performing an autocompletion. IRB does this for single quote and double quote string literals.
Not all methods are effected (for example '.delete' is fine) but at least the following are: .length, .size, .inspect, .to_i

Steps to replicate:

1. Enable autocompletion by adding the following line to your ~/.irbrc:
   require 'irb/completion'

2. Type any string literal, a period, and the characters 'len' to indicate the 'length' method

3. Press tab

To illustrate:
power-mac-g4:~ $ irb
irb(main):001:0> 'test'.len
.....becomes...
irb(main):001:0> 'test'.length'
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[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

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Sorry, can someone tell me if this still happens?
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[adrianomitre (Adriano Mitre)]

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Yes, unfortunately it still happens.

Except for JRuby, all the following "rubies" have this defect:

• ruby-1.9.2-p136 [ x86_64 ]
• rbx-1.2.0-20101221 [ ]
• ree-1.8.7-2010.02 [ x86_64 ]
• ruby-1.8.7-p330 [ x86_64 ]
• jruby-1.5.6 [ amd64-java ]

My system:

• Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)
  $ uname -a
  Linux adriano-desktop 2.6.31-22-server #70-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 00:00:57
  UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Assigned
• Assignee set to keiju (Keiju Ishitsuka)

[nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura)]

• Target version set to 1.9.3

[keiju (Keiju Ishitsuka)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r32295.
C, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• lib/irb/completion.rb: complate correctry string literal. fix [Bug #1145].