From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-08-28T00:51:06+09:00
Subject: Re: # sign does not work as expected form irb

2009/8/27 Salvador Sanjuan <salvador.sanjuan@gmail.com>:
> Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
>> Salvador Sanjuan wrote:
>>> Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
>>>> I've never heard of or seen this behavior.
>>>> What keyboard are you using? In what language is Windows XP? What key
>>>> combination do you use to get # (for me, it's Shift-3)? What tool do you
>>>> use for irb? is it cmd.exe ?
>>>
>>> The keyboard is forma IBM. The language is Spanish international. To get
>>> # I use AltGr+3
>>>
>>> The tool I use is irb.
>>
>> Where does IRB run? In a command-line window? A special program? (I use
>> a tool called 'console2' which I got from sourceforge).
>>
>> If you type the # in a regular terminal / command-line window, does it
>> go to the next line? I suspect that AltGr is the problem, but I am not
>> sure.
>
> The IRB runs on command-line window. But it does just the same with fxri
> for example.
>
> If I type # the character moves to the beggining of the line and opens a
> new line.

I have no idea how you would provoke that effect in a Windows XP
command window.  I can type as many # as I want, the cursor does not
jump.  Maybe reboot? ;-)

robert


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