From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T17:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB: Arrow keys not working (neither Insert, home, etc)

An鱈bal wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   I have Ruby 1.8.5 installed in Ubuntu 6.06 (Kernel: 2.6.15-27-686 )
> IRB works fine with special characters (like accented a, and tilded n)
> but the arrow keys produce the following input:
> 
>    Up: ^[[A
>    Right: ^[[C
>    Down: ^[[B
>    Left: ^[[D
> 
>    The other special keys: Insert, Home, Prev Page, Del, End and Nex
> Page produce similar results.

Is this your first exposure to Ruby and/or IRB? Did you have Ruby 1.8.4
before this? Did it work? Is this a new problem not seen before? Is Ubuntu
your first Linux? Are you typing on a remote terminal or typing directly
into, say, a Konsole session under X windows?

These are the sorts of questions that spring to mind when trying to offer a
useful answer.

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com