From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T01:41:28+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB is dying on me

Greg Donald wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Peter Bailey wrote:
> 
>> Why is it that I can't repeat lines and edit them in IRB? If I press my
>> cursor up key, normally, that repeats the line I just entered. Then, I
>> can backspace and modify any part of that line I want before executing
>> it. But, it's dying on me. After I backspace a few characters, the
>> cursor goes nuts, and, I've lost my instruction string. Has anyone else
>> seen this behavior?
> 
> Sounds like your missing readline support.

Sorry, but, I don't know what that is. Is that a gem I need to install?
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