From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T22:47:53+09:00
Subject: Re: irb backspacing

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In article <D574ECD8-C27E-11D7-8DBD-000A9575FBF0@emergentreport.com>,
Steve Mallett  <steve@emergentreport.com> wrote:
> Is it just my irb installation (on OSX) that doesn't support backspace?
> 
> If it's not just me is there a tweak?

Install readline (either manually or through fink/darwinports) and
recompile Ruby to take this into account.

I ended up compiling 1.8.0 :-)
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