From: Jay Levitt Date: 2007-11-19T04:55:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Bug in IRb? On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:05:27 -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Jay Levitt wrote: > >> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:54:17 -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote: >> >>> 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? >> >> Nope! Doesn't happen for me, either on Cygwin 1.5.24 with Ruby 1.8.6 >> (2007-03-13) or Ubuntu Dapper with Ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24). >> >> I imagine it's something weird in your .inputrc, but I've never >> been good >> at the terminal stuff - too many legacy layers. >> >> What platform are you on? > > Mac OS X (Tiger) OK, my MacBook's got an uncharged battery at the moment, but I can try there later if you haven't figured it out yet. >> Also, I should point out that it's not possible to move the arrow > I said *backward* delete. There should still be the same number of > characters in front of your cursor after that operation. D'oh! I am so used to people saying "backslash" when they mean "forward slash" that I mentally unescaped your backwards-delete. :) So that means, assuming I can still count, that you're actually typing those quotation marks (e.g. double-quote one space less-than space four zero five double-quote). I didn't realize that either. Oops again. Still can't replicate on Cygwin or Ubunutu, FWIW. -- Jay Levitt | Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer