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Re:Pry: A better Ruby REPL by dpritchett on Sunday April 24, 2011 @03:38PM (#2479456)
Python's IDLE does this as well. It's hugely frustrating in other REPLs (irb, iPython) to type out a 5-line block only to find that you missed a keystroke on line 2. I'm hoping there's a keyboard shortcut I don't know about.
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Re:Pry: A better Ruby REPL by wewyor on Sunday April 24, 2011 @07:05PM (#2479854)
It does work in ipython it just is annoying to navigate and you have to rely on the automatic indenting a bit more if you are adding anything (as the ...: is missing).

Unless of course you mean history through different sessions as that doesn't work for full functions.

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Re:Pry: A better Ruby REPL by dpritchett on Sunday April 24, 2011 @07:18PM (#2479868)
With IDLE a quick Ctrl-P will bring up the entire previous block input, including indents, all at once.
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Re:Pry: A better Ruby REPL by wewyor on Sunday April 24, 2011 @07:36PM (#2479893)
Indents are included with a simple up arrow with ipython, it also works if you are doing a backwards search (C-r), it just doesn't have the nice formatting you get when you first write the function.

Idle is a bit easier to edit the function though.

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