From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-08-28T17:28:22+09:00
Subject: Re: # sign does not work as expected form irb

Hi,

2009/8/27 Salvador Sanjuan <salvador.sanjuan@gmail.com>:
> I have just started Ruby. I have tried to do some exercises usin irb but
> this is what happens if I write the following code msg = "Hello "
> #{name} ":
>
>
> irb<main>:157:0> #msg "Hello,
> irb<main>:158:0>*
>
> As as soon as I enter the # sign after the Hello it moves to the
> beggining of the line and a new line appears.
>
> My computer works with Windows XP.
>
> How can I change the way the # sign works+

I guess your ruby is 1.8.6 OCI version.
This problem is due to the bug of readline.dll(Readline-4.3-2).
The behavior is "rl_insert_comment".

Try following:
1. Create a file named "inpurc" in your ruby binary directory with the content
"\M-#": "#"

2. Create an environment variable in the System Properties->Advanced
Tab->Environment Variables area called INPUTRC and set it to
c:\ruby\bin\inputrc

Regards,

Park Heesob