Console is not showing the menu bar or the toolbar!

Those of you who are in love with the Console2′s interesting feats, but on windows sometimes fall into ditches, as usual, here is a problem I ran into before doing the following twick.

I installed the console in a windows box, but couldn’t see its menu, neither it’s toolbar! Tried to find any related issues by googling online but now help.

At last I thought, let me have a look into the console.xml which contains the runtime configurations. And I found this:


<controls show_menu=“0” show_toolbar=“0” show_statusbar=“0” show_tabs=“1” hide_single_tab=“0” show_scrollbars=“0”/>

Bingo! Just what I was looking for. The Console started functioning normal again after I have changed the above to the following:


<controls show_menu=“1” show_toolbar=“1” show_statusbar=“1” show_tabs=“1” hide_single_tab=“1” show_scrollbars=“1”/>

Voila!
Hope this helps those who may need it in a hurry

Update: Dec. 30, 2009

I forgot to mention the easy way first , sorry — you can also go to the settings by pressing Ctrl+S after running the Console2 window.

On the search I found these invaluable articles in different sites. Have a look you might find something more interesting there

• Console2 — A command window replacement
• A Mac-type RAILS dev env in windows
• E-TextEditor for windows mode setting : add .rb files to RAILS syntax
• Although inexpensive, E-TextEditor is a paid tool with a 30-day trial period. You may instead try the free editor PSPad.

e-TextEditor commands

While trying to find some e-texteditor knowhows, I found the following cheatsheet here:

Keyboard shortcuts for E Text Editor (http://www.e-texteditor.com/)
Was added some time ago under the Cheat Sheet Title “e” but was deleted somehow.

File Operations
===============

Ctrl+N               : New file
Double-Click tab bar : New file
Ctrl+O               : Open file
Ctrl+S               : Save file
Ctrl+Shift+S         : Save as
Ctrl+W               : Close file
Ctrl+Shift+T         : Go To File dialog

Editing
=======

Ctrl+K         : Delete to end of line; if the caret already is at 
                 end-of-line it deletes the newline.
Ctrl+Shift+K   : Delete the entire line
Ctrl+Backspace : Delete to start of word (same as Ctrl+H)
Ctrl+Delete    : Delete to end of word
Ctrl+(Shift)+U : Change case on word/selection
Alt+G          : Inverse case on word/selection
Alt+Shift+D    : Duplicate line/selection
Ctrl+Alt+U     : Title case
Ctrl+T         : Transpose, for swapping words or chars.
Ctrl+Alt+R     : Run current line/selection
Ctrl+C         : Copy (or: Ctrl+Insert)
Ctrl+V         : Paste (or: Shift+Insert)
Ctrl+X         : Cut
Ctrl+Z         : Undo
Ctrl+Y         : Redo. If there are multiple branches to choose from, 
                 undo history will be displayed.
Esc            : Word completion. 

Selection
=========

Ctrl+A           : Select all
Ctrl+Shift+arrow : Select entire word
Alt+Left-mouse   : column selection
Ctrl+Left-mouse  : Multi selection
Shift+Home       : Selects to the first non-whitespace char on the line, 
                   second time the white spaces will be selected as well 
Shift+Ctrl+Home  : Selects to the beginning of the document
Shift+Ctrl+End   : Selects to the end of the document
Shift+Ctrl+L     : Selects current line
Shift+Ctrl+W     : Selects current word
Shift+Ctrl+Space : Selects current scope. If you keep hitting it,
                   it will cycle through the available scopes.

Folding
=======

F1          : Toggle current fold
Alt+F1      : Open current fold and closes all others
Ctrl+F1     : Fold all
Ctrl+Alt+F1 : Unfold all
Shift+F1    : Select current fold
Left-mouse  : Fold end or fold indicator: Select fold, twice to fold
Mouseover   : Fold end: Show fold preview
              Fold indicator: Highlight fold (useful for nested folds)

Navigation
==========

Ctrl+Tab           : Go to last active tab (or next tab if used repeatedly)
Ctrl+Shift+Tab     : Go to previous tab
Alt+Ctrl+R/L-arrow : Next/previous tab
Alt+Ctrl+Up-arrow  : Go to header/source
Ctrl+L             : Go to Symbol
Ctrl+G             : Go to line
Ctrl+F             : Find
Ctrl+G             : Find next
Ctrl+R             : Replace
Home               : Move cursor to the beginning of the line
End                : Move cursor to the end of the line
Ctrl+Home          : Move cursor to the beginning of the document
Ctrl+End           : Move cursor to the end of the document
Ctrl+Up/Down-arrow : Scroll up/down, without moving the caret
Ctrl+1-9           : Go to tab
Ctrl+Alt+0         : Go to last tab
Ctrl+0             : List open tabs

View
====

Ctrl+P       : Show/hide Project Pane
F5           : Show/hide Symbol List
F6           : Show/hide Revision History
F7           : Show/hide Undo History
F1           : Toggle Fold
Ctrl+F1      : Fold All
Alt+F1       : Fold Others
Alt+Ctrl+F1  : Unfold All
Ctrl+Alt+P   : Show/hide Web Preview

Document
========

Ctrl+M : Make milestone

Bundles
=======

Ctrl+Shift+B : Show bundle editor
Ctrl+Alt+T   : Select bundle
Esc          : Kill current running bundle command

Projects
========

Ctrl+P       : Show/hide project pane
Ctrl+Shift+P : Switch focus between editor and project pane 
               (opening it if needed). 
Arrow keys   : Up/down and expand/close folder
Enter        : Open file in editor
F2           : Rename
F5           : Refresh project view
Shift-F10    : Show context menu

Mouse Shortcuts
===============

Double-click    : Select word
Triple-click    : Select line
Alt-doubleclick : Select scope

Command Line Options
====================

--clearstate    : Don't reload files from last session.
--clearlayout   : Resets window layout and positions.
--clearundo     : Clear undo history for all un-milestoned files.

Bundles: http://tmbundles4win.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
Version 2, updated 139 days ago.

Standalone Ruby/RoR

Digging through the google I found the following informative articles on the web:

• A Ruby compiler : to make your script standalone!
• Another way to compile your script is to use AllInOneRuby.

Both of these have incorporated the EEE or Environment Embedding Executable technique explained very well by Erik in his site.