From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2006-07-25T18:31:43+09:00
Subject: Re: irb on Mac OS X not displaying previous lines

On 7/24/06, Craig Demyanovich <demmer12@fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Elliot Temple wrote:
>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > i believe you need to install readline
>
> Ruby 1.8.4 from DarwinPorts depends on readline, so it's installed
> for me. Recently, I found that the readline version from DarwinPorts
> was updated. I installed it and broke Ruby stuff. I simply
> deactivated the new one (5.1.x) and reactivated the old one (5.0.x).
>

It also works for me with ruby from Fink :)

Thanks

Michal