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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Robert Mannl wrote:
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
Just for the record, I'm using IRB with --noreadline now, and that works fine
irb --noreadline
Cheers,
Rob