From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T21:20:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [slightly OT] up key doesn't work in irb

>>>>> "E" == Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@wanadoo.fr> writes:

E> 	I had ruby 1.6.2 which came with my mandrake 8.0. I just upgraded to ruby 
E> 1.6.8 (compiled from source), and now in irb the "up" key doesn't work 
E> anymore, instead ^[[A is displayed on the screen...

 Verify that ruby has build the extension readline

pigeon% ruby -rreadline -e 1
pigeon% 

 If it give an error, goto ruby-1.6.8/ext/readline and run

  ruby extconf.rb

 to see if it give an error message


Guy Decoux