irb backspacing

[Steve Mallett]

Is it just my irb installation (on OSX) that doesn't support backspace?

If it's not just me is there a tweak?


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[Ollivier Robert]

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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

 

[Gennady]

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" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: irb backspacing

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

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]

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

I know but I assumed the original poster wanted the full thing with
readline.

I compiled 1.8 for several reasons anyway:
- I use 1.8 everywhere
- Apple's bundle is not complete and lacks libruby.a/dylib and a few other
things.

Cheers,