From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-07-29T01:31:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Expansion Pak I: The Tiger's Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb)

il Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:55:51 +0200, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> ha
scritto::

>Curt Hibbs wrote:
>
>>>Or the ~/.irbrc that Raph offered will work as well.
>> Great... this worked!
>
>Didn't work for me though. I'm on a German keyboard layout and have to 
>use ctrl-alt-7 to get a {. This stops working as soon as I use readline 
>for irb.

imvho this is a problem with readline, try to get a proper .inputrc
file. It's hard on my italian box too.