On Sep 24, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Peter Bailey wrote:

> Peter Bailey wrote:
>> Greg Donald wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Peter Bailey wrote:
>>>>> Sounds like your missing readline support.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, but, I don't know what that is. Is that a gem I need to  
>>>> install?
>>>
>>> Readline is the library that makes your irb behave more like a  
>>> modern
>>> shell.  I added readline support to my Ruby when I compiled it.
>>>
>>> --with-readline-dir=/usr/local
>>
>> OK. Well, I'm on Windows and I didn't compile anything. Ruby's been
>> "out-of-the-box" for me for almost a year now and it's worked
>> beautifully. I'll look into it further. Thanks.
>
> Well, I tried everything including uninstalling and re-installing  
> Ruby.
> But, it still isn't working. This is very weird.
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>
Ask yourself if you've installed anything recently (since you last  
remember it working) ...
Something could've clobbered something.
Is your keyboard working in every app?
Is it CygWin or something?