class IRB::Pager
The implementation of this class is borrowed from RDoc’s lib/rdoc/ri/driver.rb. Please do NOT use this class directly outside of IRB
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Constants
- PAGE_COMMANDS
Public Class Methods
page(retain_content: false) { |pager| ... }
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# File irb/pager.rb, line 20 def page(retain_content: false) if should_page? && pager = setup_pager(retain_content: retain_content) begin pid = pager.pid yield pager ensure pager.close end else yield $stdout end # When user presses Ctrl-C, IRB would raise `IRB::Abort` # But since Pager is implemented by running paging commands like `less` in another process with `IO.popen`, # the `IRB::Abort` exception only interrupts IRB's execution but doesn't affect the pager # So to properly terminate the pager with Ctrl-C, we need to catch `IRB::Abort` and kill the pager process rescue IRB::Abort Process.kill("TERM", pid) if pid nil rescue Errno::EPIPE end
page_content(content, **options)
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# File irb/pager.rb, line 10 def page_content(content, **options) if content_exceeds_screen_height?(content) page(**options) do |io| io.puts content end else $stdout.puts content end end
Private Class Methods
content_exceeds_screen_height?(content)
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# File irb/pager.rb, line 47 def content_exceeds_screen_height?(content) screen_height, screen_width = begin Reline.get_screen_size rescue Errno::EINVAL [24, 80] end pageable_height = screen_height - 3 # leave some space for previous and the current prompt # If the content has more lines than the pageable height content.lines.count > pageable_height || # Or if the content is a few long lines pageable_height * screen_width < Reline::Unicode.calculate_width(content, true) end
setup_pager(retain_content:)
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# File irb/pager.rb, line 62 def setup_pager(retain_content:) require 'shellwords' PAGE_COMMANDS.each do |pager_cmd| cmd = Shellwords.split(pager_cmd) next if cmd.empty? if cmd.first == 'less' cmd << '-R' unless cmd.include?('-R') cmd << '-X' if retain_content && !cmd.include?('-X') end begin io = IO.popen(cmd, 'w') rescue next end if $? && $?.pid == io.pid && $?.exited? # pager didn't work next end return io end nil end
should_page?()
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# File irb/pager.rb, line 43 def should_page? IRB.conf[:USE_PAGER] && STDIN.tty? && (ENV.key?("TERM") && ENV["TERM"] != "dumb") end