From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2006-07-24T19:06:14+09:00
Subject: Re: irb on Mac OS X not displaying previous lines


On Jul 23, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Tom Robinson wrote:

> I just started using irb on my Mac. When I press the Up arrow I should
> see the previously entered line, right? Instead it writes "^[[A" to  
> the
> prompt. I've tried Terminal.app, iTerm, and xterm within X11, all  
> do the
> same thing. Any ideas?

You need not do anything but build your own ruby and move the stock  
ruby aside (eg sudo mv /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby182). OSX ships  
with libedit and it works fine with no extra configuration options.