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Ruby Introducing the Practice

CWong Da
CWong Da
598 Points
Posted by CWong Da
CWong Da
598 Points

Sometimes I wish to delete a previous step, but the clear command would delete everything I've inputed. What should I do

Sometimes I wish to delete a previous step, but the clear command would delete everything I've inputed. What should I do instead?

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Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

This is going to seem like a very low-tech solution, but here's what I do whenever I need to refer to some other text when typing in new code: I paste it right into the same editor so I can refer to it, then delete it after I've made my edits. So select all your old code, and hit Copy/Ctrl-C. Do the "clear" command. Then paste your code in, right below the code you're editing. You can comment the old code out if you want, or just make sure to delete it before running your new code.

Works great for me, and it's much less of a mental burden than flipping between windows!

By the way, secret tip for Treehouse code challenges: code that's passing Task 2 (or later) of a challenge will almost always pass Task 1 as well. So if you copy your Task 2 code and switch back to Task 1, it should still work.