How do you paste multiple lines of code?

[ndbroadbent]

I've been having a lot of frustration with byebug, because I can't paste multiple lines of code from my editor. Also, when I try to run irb, it doesn't have the same binding as the breakpoint. Is this a bug?

irb(main):001:0> self
=> main

How can I paste multiple lines of code, for example to overwrite a method definition, or even just a multiline condition or case statement? I frequently do this in IRB, or in the Rails console, and would love to know if byebug can support this.

[ndbroadbent]

I've switched to using binding.pry with pry-byebug, and that's a much better experience. Also much better when I use these aliases in my ~/.pryrc.

Now the only remaining issue is that binding.pry is really long to type, and I want to make a shortcut. Is there anyway I can add a shorter alias to my ~/.pryrc?

[deivid-rodriguez]

I figure this could be related to #367, so I'll close this and follow up in there. Regarding the question about aliases, I have no idea.

[stevecondylios]

+1 for this capability, if it were possible to paste in multiple lines of code, that would be very handy. Incidentally, I asked here also.

@ndbroadbent is it possible to explain in a little more detail what you did to improve the experience as I shall also try that (I haven't used any debugging software other than byebug, e.g. haven't used pry-byebug before)