Disable irb autocomplete

Question

The latest version of irb introduced an autocomplete that is quite buggy and I don't generally like to be distracted by an autocomplete, any idea how I can disable it?

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Shudder

Answer 1

Try putting this in your ~/.irbrc

IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false

Coffeng

Perfect, it works, thanks a lot – Shudder

@Shudder could you accept my answer? – Coffeng

sorry just did, thanks again for the answer, I also added IRB.conf[:ECHO_ON_ASSIGNMENT] = true – Shudder

I did not have an ~/.irbrc file so I created it and put IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false and require "irb/completion" in it, saved and restarted the terminal but it is still auto suggesting, can you tell me what I am missing. – Flattie

something recently happened, pasting code into the console is triggering auto complete. This helps – Portative

You can also put the .irbrc file in your repo directory and it will work for all Users and in Production/Staging/etc. – Expenditure

@Flattie did you create it as a file or directory? In my case I just created it as a file in the home directory and add IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false and it works. – Gama

Despite what the docs suggest, having the .irbrc file in my project's root folder did nothing. It does work when in my home directory though. – Barbaresi

Answer 2

We can pass the --noautocomplete command line option when invoking IRB.

irb --noautocomplete

Alternatively we can set a configuration option in ~/.irbrc or one of the other locations specified in the documentation

IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false

Starting a Rails console will respect this configuration but for a one-off we can provide the command line option. Be sure to pass any Rails options before the --

rails console --sandbox -- --noautocomplete

Eclipse

Answer 3

If you using IRB remotely and do not have permission to update .irbrc file, try this:

Reline.autocompletion = IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false

This assignment changes the behaviour of the current session.

May the source be with you.

Evidentiary