From: Robert Mannl <ro@...>
Date: 2005-05-27T06:07:13+09:00
Subject: Broken IRB in Windows?

Hello!

I'm new to Ruby, and I'm really enjoying it.

I have two questions:
 1) Can I search through old messages from this mailing list somehow?
 2) IRB is broken for me in Windows. Two problems:
      a) When lines get to long, everything gets really messy and the 
cursor jumps one line up. Someone told me the readline support
           is broken. Is that correct? Can I fix that somehow, e.g. by 
downloading the latest IRB version or something?
      b) I can't type in some characters, particularly square brackets. 
It goes without saying that that is more than annoying =P I.e. it
          makes IRB unusable for me :) Any ideas? I have an european 
keyword. I downloaded the .*inputrc file from
          http://poignantguide.net/ruby/expansion-pak-1.html and put it 
in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\ but
          that did not help.


Thanks!

RobM
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