From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-11-19T02:15:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in IRb?

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 01:54:17AM +0900, James Edward Gray II 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?

I do not see your behavoir.  I tried both with commenting out the
contents of my .irbrc fila and using 'irb -f --readline'.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org