From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-08-23T03:18:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Expansion Pak I: The Tiger's Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb)

Henrik Horneber wrote:
>
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
>
> > Florian Gross wrote:
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>I also have a Cygwin-bash available and in the shell itself I can still
> >>type brackets.
> >>
> >>Is there any way to fix that? If yes it should also be included into the
> >>one-click installer.
> >
> >
> > I have no way to find a solution or test this. But if someone
> else can do so
> > and send me the solution I will include it in the installer.
> >
> > Curt
> >
> >
> >
>
> Sorry to post such a late follow up, but has this been adressed yet in
> the beloved one-click-installer?
>
> Seems like there is a working solution here:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/107774
> (worked for me with the latest one-click-installer ruby version and
> german keyboard layout)
>
> Henrik

The readline stuff is working in the latest one-click installer. But the
one-click installer is not localized for different languages, so
language-specific stuff like this you would still have to take care of
yourself.

Curt