From: Steve Mallett Date: 2003-08-01T19:50:23+09:00 Subject: Re: irb backspacing On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Gennady wrote: > 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). I was using tcsh and checked others, bash, zsh backspace -is working- with them all. It's just irb. I'll try a new compile. This is with the standard OSX ver. > Backspacing must work in irb even without readline modue enabled as it > is > performed by the tty driver. > > Gennady. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ollivier Robert" > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby > To: "ruby-talk ML" > 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 , >> Steve Mallett 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 :-) >> -- >> Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/ITM -=- roberto@eurocontrol.fr >> Usenet Canal Historique FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! >> >> > > > > Steve Mallett http://open5ource.net ".. doctrine is the expression of enlightenment; it does not produce it." -Christmas Humphreys, Teach Yourself Zen