Hi,
As mentioned in subject when in irb I can't type the following
characters: { [ ] }
I access them by using Alt Gr.
I can access them just fine in the normal ruby shell.
Any ideas?
What platform are you on?
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On 10/19/05, rohde <rohdester@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
As mentioned in subject when in irb I can't type the following
characters: { }I access them by using Alt Gr.
I can access them just fine in the normal ruby shell.Any ideas?
Taking a guess, you're using the Ruby Installer for Windows and you're
on a German or similarly different keyboard. RIght?
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/119013
-austin
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On 10/19/05, rohde <rohdester@gmail.com> wrote:
As mentioned in subject when in irb I can't type the following
characters: { }I access them by using Alt Gr.
I can access them just fine in the normal ruby shell.Any ideas?
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Yes, I'm on Windows XP and used the installer, as well as a non-US
keyboard.
Anyways I downloaded the file and saved it as .inputrc in my home
directory (C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>), but still no {, [
etc.
Note that the file that was mentioned was *specifically* for the
German keyboard.
You may need to make further modifications for non-German, non-US keyboards.
-austin
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On 10/19/05, rohde <rohdester@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I'm on Windows XP and used the installer, as well as a non-US
keyboard.Anyways I downloaded the file and saved it as .inputrc in my home
directory (C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>), but still no {, [
etc.
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* Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
rohde wrote:
Yes, I'm on Windows XP and used the installer, as well as a non-US
keyboard.Anyways I downloaded the file and saved it as .inputrc in my home
directory (C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>), but still no {, [
etc.
My current 'workaround' is to simply switch to an english keyboard layout every time I use irb by pressing Shift-Alt. This seems odd, but actually an english keyboard is better suited to program Ruby anyway just because you get one-hit-access to {, [ and so on.
Kind regards,
Matthias
Yes I know. But I just can't seem to get it to work. But I'll just use
irb in the FreeRIDE IDE for starters - that works like a charm 
Matthias Luedtke wrote:
rohde wrote:
My current 'workaround' is to simply switch to an english keyboard layout every time I use irb by pressing Shift-Alt. This seems odd, but actually an english keyboard is better suited to program Ruby anyway just because you get one-hit-access to {, [ and so on.
Oh yeah, the placement of {} and /,\, on any keyboard other than the standard US english is a carpal syndrome nightmare.
When I switched from the english to the german keyboard I found it immensely annoying (ever since I have worked on croatian, spanish and worst of all swiss layouts).
I wonder, did the original idea for using in C was because it was accessible on the english keyboard, and if it was made in germany would we now write a< ....damn, there is no convenient combination anyway. I guess central europeans should only invent natural languages 
Cheers,
V.-
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rohde ha scritto:
Yes I know. But I just can't seem to get it to work. But I'll just use
irb in the FreeRIDE IDE for starters - that works like a charm
I guess you need to set an INPUTRC environment variable pointing to your ..inputrc file. At least, it works on my win32 box.
well, it's either the brackets or the umlauts... and yeah, I have the same
problem with irb. I believe the problem was non-existant under linux for me,
though.
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On 10/20/05, Damphyr <damphyr@freemail.gr> wrote:
Matthias Luedtke wrote:
> rohde wrote:
> My current 'workaround' is to simply switch to an english keyboard
> layout every time I use irb by pressing Shift-Alt. This seems odd, but
> actually an english keyboard is better suited to program Ruby anyway
> just because you get one-hit-access to {, [ and so on.
Oh yeah, the placement of {} and /,\, on any keyboard other than the
standard US english is a carpal syndrome nightmare.
When I switched from the english to the german keyboard I found it
immensely annoying (ever since I have worked on croatian, spanish and
worst of all swiss layouts).
I wonder, did the original idea for using in C was because it was
accessible on the english keyboard, and if it was made in germany would
we now write a< ....damn, there is no convenient combination anyway. I
guess central europeans should only invent natural languages
Cheers,
V.---
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Damphyr wrote:
Oh yeah, the placement of {} and /,\, on any keyboard other than the standard US english is a carpal syndrome nightmare.
The placement of these and other special characters is also very well
done on the Dvorak keyboard layout
http://dvzine.org/type/800W.gif
I recently switched from the Swiss German layout to US Dvorak - it is
cool that even the English version of Dvorak is way better than QWERTZ
for German texts. Now I feel comfortable again with Dvorak. The umlauts
are no problem because there are combining characters for ¨, ´, `, ˜ and ˆ.
If you're interested, have a look at the nice site:
Regards,
Robin
En réponse à Robin Stocker :
The placement of these and other special characters is also very well
done on the Dvorak keyboard layout
http://dvzine.org/type/800W.gif
I personally very much like the placement of special characters on my Dutch keyboard: http://www.datacal.com/products/dutch-layout.htm\. In it, < and > are on the same key, like [ and ] (and in accessible places). Only { and } are a bit more difficult (they are AltGr-8 and AltGr-9), but it's not too bad (especially considering that ( and ) are Shift-8 and Shift-9. It all fits nicely ). And it has nice dead keys.
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give me a sensible layout that has å ä and ö easily available... of course,
there's svorak, but...
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On 10/20/05, Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@free.fr> wrote:
En réponse à Robin Stocker :
>
> The placement of these and other special characters is also very well
> done on the Dvorak keyboard layout
> http://dvzine.org/type/800W.gif
>I personally very much like the placement of special characters on my
Dutch keyboard: http://www.datacal.com/products/dutch-layout.htm\. In it,
< and > are on the same key, like [ and ] (and in accessible places).
Only { and } are a bit more difficult (they are AltGr-8 and AltGr-9),
but it's not too bad (especially considering that ( and ) are Shift-8
and Shift-9. It all fits nicely
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You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.