From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2005-02-08T02:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Interactive Shell

Tom Rathbone ha scritto:
> I have this problem too.. it is very annoying. I work with Linux
> during the day but when I get home I only get to use WinXP.  Not
> having irb handy removes a certain amount of the joy from Ruby.  I was
> told that installing new readline .dll and .so files could help this
> but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
> 
> I had hoped that FXirb would address this but it doesn't seem to
> support autocompletion yet.
> 
> Anybody know a way of getting the one-click irb to behave?

it is a known problem, if you look at the archives.
Sadly it seem noone has a clue on how to fix it :)
Even if, IIRC, someone hinted it could relate to something like 
readline/cmd.exe's output buffer being overflowed, and in fact, if you 
try autocompleting a constant it seem to run fine (provided you did not 
set too much constants :), while it crashes if you try to expand 
something like "Object.<tab>".

PS
please consider avoiding top-posting, it is a bad habit :)