From: yermej <yermej@...>
Date: 2007-11-19T02:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in IRb?

On Nov 18, 10:54 am, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>
wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a long standing issue with my IRb setup that
> is very annoying.  To test, I've commented out everything in
> my .irbrc file and then loaded IRb with:
>
>    $ irb --readline
>
> Now, these steps show the problem:
>
> 1. Type:  "1 < 405"
> 2. Push the left arrow until your cursor is on the space before the 4
> (5 times)
> 3. Use a backward delete key to remove the <
> 4. Push the right arrow to move to the end of the line (5 times)
> 5. Try to type: "
>
> IRb ignores my typing at this point.  Can anyone else confirm that
> they see this behavior?
>
> James Edward Gray II

Not happening for me. I'm using irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)/ruby 1.8.4
(2006-02-24) [x86_64-linux]. I did exactly what you described except
used irb -f --readline rather than commenting out my .irbrc.

Jeremy