From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-02-08T02:14:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Interactive Shell

gabriele renzi wrote:
>
> 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>".

If anyone has a solution, I would implemented in the one-click installer in
a heartbeat!

Curt