From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-11-19T03:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in IRb?

On Nov 18, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Ben Bleything wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> IRb ignores my typing at this point.  Can anyone else confirm that
>> they see this behavior?
>
> It's probably something to do with the way your terminal is set up and
> what it's sending on your backward delete.  Are you using a funky
> terminal or keyboard or anything like that?
>
> I've seen similar problems when SSHing from my mac to older *BSD  
> boxes,
> where certain keys (notably meta-b) would cause the command line to  
> just
> lock up until I hit ctrl-c.

Thanks for all the tips.  It seems to be something specific with my  
environment and I'll try to track it down.

James Edward Gray II