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Correct usage for -w. It turns ON warnings, not OFF. #1141

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Correct usage for -w. It turns ON warnings, not OFF. #1141

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion lib/irb/lc/help-message
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Expand Up @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Usage: irb.rb [options] [programfile] [arguments]
-U Set external and internal encodings to UTF-8.
-E ex[:in] Set default external (ex) and internal (in) encodings
(same as 'ruby -E').
-w Suppress warnings (same as 'ruby -w').
-w Enable warnings (same as 'ruby -w' or 'ruby -W1').
-W[level=2] Set warning level: 0=silence, 1=medium, 2=verbose
(same as 'ruby -W').
--context-mode n Set n[0-4] to method to create Binding Object,
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