From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-11-04T22:08:45+09:00
Subject: Re: irb problems on one-click windows installer

Henrik Horneber ha scritto:

> Robert Feldt wrote:
> 
>> Henrik Horneber wrote:
>>
>>> Curt Hibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robert Feldt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a couple of students that use Ruby in a course and they've run
>>>>> into a problem that is not my home ground since I don't run Ruby from
>>>>> the one-click installer. But maybe some of you have seen this problem:
>>>>>
>>>>> After installing the latest one-click installer irb works from the
>>>>> standard windows command line prompt (cmd) but they say they cannot 
>>>>> use
>>>>> curly {} or normal braces [] so cannot try out code easily.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can this be a problem with the one-click installer irb or is it their
>>>>> windows setup?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any hints appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been trying to get them to install cygwin and run from their but
>>>>> they are stubborn... ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you using a non-english keyboard? If so, I know there are issues 
>>>> here
>>>> (which is beyond my expertise), but I have seen solutions posted to
>>>> ruby-talk. Try this google search (for example):
>>>>
>>>>    site:blade.nagaokaut.aazc.jp ruby irb german keyboard
>>>>
>>>> Curt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/107774
>>>
>> Thanks to both of you.
>>
>> Yes, they are on non-US keyboards.
>>
>> Sorry I missed the posts. I will look around but the students are not 
>> on mingw32 so I'm not sure there is an inputrc on plain windows. 
> 
> 
> 
> If they are using the latest One-Click-Installer, the instructions given 
> by eban work. At least for me.
> 

agreed, they work for me, even if from time to time I end up typing some 
strange character and irb crahes :/

PS
my inpoutrc is
"\M-[": "["
"\M-]": "]"
"\M-{": "{"
"\M-}": "}"
"\M-\\": "\\"
"\M-|": "|"
"\M-@": "@"
"\M-": ""
"\M-\3760": "}"
"\M-\3767": "{"
"\M-\3768": "("
"\M-\3769": ")"
"\M-\e[3~": delete-char

but 'del' never really worked for me :(