From: Graham Nicholls <graham@...>
Date: 2005-04-28T23:59:36+09:00
Subject: Re: irb command-line editing

Graham Nicholls wrote:

> gabriele renzi wrote:
> 
>> Graham Nicholls ha scritto:
>>> Hi.  Can anyone tell me how to get vi-style command-line editing in irb,
>>> please.
>>> Thanks
>> 
>> I guess you can set up your own inputrc file, since IRB is based on
>> readline, and set "editing-mode" to "vi", I never trtied it, though.
> I have a .inputrc with precisely that. ESC-k simply echoes.
> 
> I've tried rebuilding from source with:
> 
> ./configure --with-readline=YES ; make ; make install
> 
> ,but to no avail.
> 
> Is this the right redline option? DO I start irb with a parameter?
> 
> Thanks
PS Sorry to followup on y own post, but when I strace the irb binary, all
the references to readline produce an ENOENT error.  Readline is on the
box, as I use it from bash (unless its built in?)
Not sure if this is relevant.

Heres part of the strace output:

stat("./readline.rb", 0x7fffffffaad0)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat("./readline.so", 0x7fffffffaad0)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)

Graham
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