From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-07-31T01:47:50+09:00
Subject: Re: irb backspacing

Did you try to use backspace at the shell command prompt (what shell, btw)?
I bet backspace does not work there either. Check stty setting for erase
(stty -a).

Backspacing must work in irb even without readline modue enabled as it is
performed by the tty driver.

Gennady.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ollivier Robert" <roberto@REMOVETHIS.eu.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: irb backspacing


> [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
>
> 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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