From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-03-23T00:28:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [slightly OT] up key doesn't work in irb

"ts" <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote in message

Hello Guy,

I am using ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32] installed with PragProg's
one-click installer on Windows.
I do not have "up" key problem in irb.
But I know that readline my version of ruby does not have readline support,
because ...

> 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%

.... when I do this I get an error :

 ruby: No such file to load -- readline (LoadError)

>  If it give an error, goto ruby-1.6.8/ext/readline and run
>
>   ruby extconf.rb
>

So will I have some other problems down the road?

This question is for those involved: is readline support on Win32 planed in
future ?