From: Assaph Mehr <assaph@...>
Date: 2005-06-20T09:50:35+09:00
Subject: Re: irb without history?



Daniel Sch�le wrote:
> well, I dont want to maintain history through the sessions
> sorry if I was unclear about it
>
> irb(main):001:0> i=0
> => 0
> irb(main):002:0>
> irb(main):003:0* ^[[A
>
> I get ^[[A when I press ArrowUp key
> I would like "i" to show up instead

Looks like a readline problem. What OS/Ruby version are you using?
(try: ruby -v).
If this is indeed a readline problem, you may need to enable readline
and recompile (assuming you're on *nix). It's been a while for me, so
maybe someone else here can help more. 

HTH,
Assaph