Win9x readline support

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Hi,
Somewhere it is mentioned that if my Ruby is compiled with readline support,
irb will support command history and all those other nice things.

Where can I find a Ruby what is compiled with readline support?

Thanks,
JJ

2

Hello,

Hi,
Somewhere it is mentioned that if my Ruby is compiled with readline support,
irb will support command history and all those other nice things.

Where can I find a Ruby what is compiled with readline support?

Thanks,
JJ

run irb
then type:
require “readline”
include Readline

this should not issue any error message.

BTW, it seems that the 1.7.3 windows ruby from PragProg doesn’t
have readline enabled. Is that normal ?

irb(main):001:0> require ‘readline’
LoadError: No such file to load – readline
from (irb):1:in `require’
from (irb):1

hth,

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On Sat, Jan 04, 2003, JJ wrote:

Pierre Baillet
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Hi,

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At Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:08:12 +0900, Pierre Baillet wrote:

run irb
then type:
require “readline”
include Readline

this should not issue any error message.

BTW, it seems that the 1.7.3 windows ruby from PragProg doesn’t
have readline enabled. Is that normal ?

irb(main):001:0> require ‘readline’
LoadError: No such file to load – readline
from (irb):1:in `require’
from (irb):1

Exactly normal. Rather, from where did you install readline
for Windows?

–
Nobu Nakada

4

Hello,

···

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

Exactly normal. Rather, from where did you install readline
for Windows?

I don’t have readline for windows, I just thought naively this was
a feature that also existed on windows platforms.

Cheers,

Pierre Baillet
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