Raphael Bauduin wrote:
>
> why the lucky stiff wrote:
> > Yes, I've been taking forever.  Well, what can I say?
> Answering threats
> > is quite consuming.  (But apologies to those of you whose threats have
> > been too jarring for me to reply or breathe.)
> >
> > Today I'm passing on to you the first fruits of a big batch of material
> > forthcoming.  The Tiger's Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb.)
> >
> >  http://poignantguide.net/ruby/expansion-pak-1.html
> >
>
> Using Debian unstable, irb1.8, I had to issue
>
> require 'irb/completion'
> conf.use_readline = true
>
> to get completion.
>
> I have added this in my ~/.irbrc to get it automatically loaded:
>
> require 'irb/completion'
> IRB.conf[:use_readline] = true

This reminds me that I want to fix the fact that tab-completion does not
work in irb in the one-click installer -- I never knew why and I kept
forgetting to ask.

I tried why's suggestion for getting it to work under windows (pretty much
the same as Raphael's above), but it doesn't work. Below is my console log.
Does anyone know what is wrong? Am I building the ruby for the one-click
installer incorrectly?

Thanks, in advance, for any help (console log below).

Curt

=== BEGIN-LOG ===

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\hibbs_c>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'irb/completion'
LoadError: No such file to load -- readline
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10
        from (irb):2:in `require'
        from (irb):2:in `irb_binding'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in `irb_binding'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52
Maybe IRB bug!!
irb(main):002:0> puts $LOAD_PATH
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32
.
=> nil
irb(main):003:0>

=== END-LOG ===