On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:30:09 +0900, Roland Schmitt <Roland.Schmitt / web.de>  
wrote:

> Curt Hibbs wrote:
>
>>>  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.
>>
>>
>> Great... this worked!
>
> But can you type [,],{ and }?
> I don't know if this is only a problem related to windows. The brackets  
> can only typed when irb is used without readline.

I'd expect that anybody with UK or US keyboard mappings can, while those  
with a German one (and probably some others) can't.

(For those who don't know the German keyboard mapping: You enter '{[]}' by  
pressing Ctrl+Alt + '7890', with the right Alt key being equivalent to  
Ctrl+Alt.)

So it seems that readlines can't cope with Ctrl+Alt.

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