Carl Youngblood wrote:
> 
> Don't you guys think that this stuff should be included in the
> one-click installer for Windows?  It should probably even include the
> ~/.irbrc settings to turn it on, so that users don't have to do
> anything to have tab completion.

Yes, I do. That's precisely why I started asking these questions.

Curt

> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:44:37 +0900, why the lucky stiff
> <ruby-talk / whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
> > Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > 
> > This topic's been knocked about on the discussion list for the
> > (Poignant) Guide.  I don't know if this is the same set of files that
> > Gabriele is offering, but it works for me:
> > 
> >   http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/dist/readline.so-for-1.8.zip
> > 
> > Two files inside.  Place readline.dll in $RUBY/bin.  The readline.so
> > goes in $RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32.  Then, to get Irb working with
> > Readline:
> > 
> >   irb --readline -r irb/completion
> > 
> > Or the ~/.irbrc that Raph offered will work as well.
> > 
> > _why
> > 
> >
> 
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