Re: readline() with editing and history?

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 01:58:27AM +0900, Kent Sibilev wrote:
On 9/15/06, Josef Wolf <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm looking for a readline() with history and editing support (like perl's
Term::Readline). Does such a thing exist for ruby?

require 'readline'

It comes with Ruby.

Thanks for your quick reply, Kent! But somehow I don't get it:

jw@raven> irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'readline'
=> false
irb(main):002:0> readline
asdf^[[D^[[D^[[A^[[A
=> "asdf\e[D\e[D\e[A\e[A\n"

The ^[[D is the result of the up-arrow and ^[[A is the result of the
left-arrow. "ri readline" mentiones:

IO::readlines, IO#readline, IO#readlines, Kernel#readlines,
Kernel#readline, Pathname#readlines, Zlib::GzipReader#readline,
Zlib::GzipReader#readlines

But none of them seem to support line-editing or history. :-(

Any idea what is going wrong here?

.

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