From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-05-05T02:06:04+09:00
Subject: Re: line recall in irb on Linux

Hi,

In message "line recall in irb on Linux"
    on 02/05/05, Al Koscielny <alko@nc.rr.com> writes:

|Up arrow recalls the previous line in the bash shell on Linux but in irb up 
|arrow only shows the escape characters.  Is there a way in irb to recall 
|previous lines and edit them?

It does on my Linux machine.  irb ignores arrow keys when it cannot
find the readline extension library.  Make sure whether you've
installed a) libreadline, b) readline.so

							matz.