[ruby/irb] Allow disabling autocompletion with

`IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE=false`
(https://github.com/ruby/irb/pull/469)

* Allow using IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE=false to disable autocompletion

Currently, the only 2 ways to disable autocompletion are:

1. Create `.irbrc` and set `IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false`
2. Add the `--noautocomplete` flag when using the `irb` executable

Both of them are less convenient than setting a env var and are
lesser known to devs.

And given the number of problems the autocompletion has (see #445), I
think we should allow disabling it with a simple `IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE=false`.

* Mention some env var configs in the README

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/irb/test_init.rb b/test/irb/test_init.rb
index 9591de1589..d9e338da8d 100644
--- a/test/irb/test_init.rb
+++ b/test/irb/test_init.rb
@@ -96,6 +96,30 @@ module TestIRB
       IRB.conf[:USE_COLORIZE] = orig_use_colorize
     end
 
+    def test_use_autocomplete_environment_variable
+      orig_use_autocomplete_env = ENV['IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE']
+      orig_use_autocomplete_conf = IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE]
+
+      ENV['IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE'] = nil
+      IRB.setup(__FILE__)
+      assert IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE]
+
+      ENV['IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE'] = ''
+      IRB.setup(__FILE__)
+      assert IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE]
+
+      ENV['IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE'] = 'false'
+      IRB.setup(__FILE__)
+      refute IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE]
+
+      ENV['IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE'] = 'true'
+      IRB.setup(__FILE__)
+      assert IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE]
+    ensure
+      ENV["IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE"] = orig_use_autocomplete_env
+      IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = orig_use_autocomplete_conf
+    end
+
     def test_noscript
       argv = %w[--noscript -- -f]
       IRB.setup(eval("__FILE__"), argv: argv)