James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Daniel Sche wrote:
> 
>>> If this is indeed a readline problem, you may need to enable readline
>>> and recompile (assuming you're on *nix). It's been a while for me, so
>>> maybe someone else here can help more.
>>>
>>
>> I will try to get the source and recompile

now I tried but unfortunately the problem remains
../configure --help
seems to have no option where I could "--enable-readline"


> Fair warning:  Silly question here.
> 
> Have you tried launching irb with the --readline switch?

no, I didn't

mond:/pool/installed/ruby/ruby1/bin # ./irb --readline
irb(main):001:0> i=0
=> 0
irb(main):002:0> ^[[A

seems not to work :-/

I am not a Linux expert and cannot tell for sure whether this
is ruby or OS related problem
Is there somebody who didn't have this problem on Linux,
especially SuSE distro?