From: nickb@... (Nick Bensema) Date: 2001-02-21T09:10:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:11197] Re: better "gets"? In article <01022018050401.29486@adamant>, Nikita Proskourine wrote: > >I am a Ruby newbie and would like to know if there is a way to get user input >in Ruby in such a way that backspace would delete the last typed character. I >know that "gets" in C or Ruby doesn't let you do that, but I miss that >functionality from Basic's "input" function. Or, for that matter, any platform-independent way of getting a single character of input, checking the keyboard queue, or whatnot. Shelling to "stty -cbreak" doesn't give Windows a smiley-face. -- Nick Bensema ICQ#2135445 ==== ======= ============== BOY, THIS IS REALLY EXPENSIVE!