What will give me something like ruby readline with a default value?

Question

If I want to have a prompt on the terminal with a default value already typed in, how can I do that?

Ruby\'s standard Readline.readline() lets me set th

Answer 1

I'm struggling with the same thing.

The way I'm doing it right now is:

options = ["the_text_you_want"]
question = "use TAB or up arrow to show the text > "

Readline.completion_append_character = " "
Readline::HISTORY.push options.first
Readline.completion_proc = proc { |s| options.grep( /^#{Regexp.escape(s)}/ ) }

while value = Readline.readline(question, true)
  exit if value == 'q'
  puts value.chomp.strip #do something with the value here
end

yes, it's silly, but it has been the only way I've found to do it.

did anybody find any solution to this?