Broken IRB in Windows?

[Robert Mannl]

Hello!

I'm new to Ruby, and I'm really enjoying it.

I have two questions:
1) Can I search through old messages from this mailing list somehow?
2) IRB is broken for me in Windows. Two problems:
a) When lines get to long, everything gets really messy and the
cursor jumps one line up. Someone told me the readline support
is broken. Is that correct? Can I fix that somehow, e.g. by
downloading the latest IRB version or something?
b) I can't type in some characters, particularly square brackets.
It goes without saying that that is more than annoying =P I.e. it
makes IRB unusable for me Any ideas? I have an european
keyword. I downloaded the .*inputrc file from
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/expansion-pak-1.html and put it
in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\ but
that did not help.


Thanks!

RobM
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[Stephan Kämper]

Hello!

I'm new to Ruby, and I'm really enjoying it.

I have two questions:
1) Can I search through old messages from this mailing list somehow?

Have a look at http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/

2) IRB is broken for me in Windows. Two problems:
a) When lines get to long, everything gets really messy and the
cursor jumps one line up. Someone told me the readline support
is broken. Is that correct? Can I fix that somehow, e.g. by
downloading the latest IRB version or something?

Happens to me, too. As far as I'm concerned, I use fxri instead which
also comes with the whole ri stuff.

b) I can't type in some characters, particularly square brackets.
It goes without saying that that is more than annoying =P I.e. it
makes IRB unusable for me Any ideas? I have an european
keyword. I downloaded the .*inputrc file from
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/expansion-pak-1.html and put it
in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\ but
that did not help.

Do you log in as "Administrator"? (BTW, you shouldn't do that.)
Do you use the One-Click-Installer? On which flavour of Windows (98, 2K,
XP)?

Happy rubying

Stephan

 

[Robert Mannl]

Hi (Hallo) Stephan

Have a look at http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/

Thanks

Happens to me, too. As far as I'm concerned, I use fxri instead which
also comes with the whole ri stuff.

Ok, fxrib works fine

Do you log in as "Administrator"? (BTW, you shouldn't do that.)
Yeah

Do you use the One-Click-Installer? On which flavour of Windows (98,
2K, XP)?
2000


Happy rubying

Thank you


- Rob

 

[Robert Mannl]

Just for the record, I'm using IRB with --noreadline now, and that works
fine

irb --noreadline


Cheers,
Rob