From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T17:17:37+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB: Arrow keys not working (neither Insert, home, etc)


An�bal wrote:

>   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.

It looks like IRB might not be compiled with readline support. I'm  
not sure how to check this, however.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net