IRB: Arrow keys not working (neither Insert, home, etc)

[Aníbal]

Hello,

I have Ruby 1.8.5 installed in Ubuntu 6.06 (Kernel: 2.6.15-27-686 )
IRB works fine with special characters (like accented a, and tilded n)
but the arrow keys produce the following input:

Up: ^[[A
Right: ^[[C
Down: ^[[B
Left: ^[[D

The other special keys: Insert, Home, Prev Page, Del, End and Nex
Page produce similar results.

 

[Michael Glaesemann]

I have Ruby 1.8.5 installed in Ubuntu 6.06 (Kernel: 2.6.15-27-686 )
IRB works fine with special characters (like accented a, and tilded n)
but the arrow keys produce the following input:

Up: ^[[A
Right: ^[[C
Down: ^[[B
Left: ^[[D

The other special keys: Insert, Home, Prev Page, Del, End and Nex
Page produce similar results.

It looks like IRB might not be compiled with readline support. I'm =20
not sure how to check this, however.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net