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> Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #959914:
>
> > Hitting enter after the above steps reveals that the "d" gets
> > swallowed up, however, and only "abcefg" are being processed.
>
> You're right, I didn't even notice that. What is even worse, is trying
> to use irb within the MSYS bash:
>
> 1. Start up bash
> 2. Type "irb" and press return
> 3. Type "abcdef" and press return
> 4. Press the up arrow key
> 5. Press the down arrow key
> 6. Press up again: Now you've got your previous line twice! You can
> repeat this process as often as you want, the line keeps getting longer
> and longer.
>
> (Hopefully these steps are correct, I just wrote them down from memory
> as I don't have access to the Vista machine for some time now).
>

Unable to reproduce, Ruby 1.9.2-p0, 1.8.7-p302

Windows 7, x64. using default command prompt (cmd.exe) or MSYS bash.

> As a side note: I usually don't use CMD directly on Windows, because
> it's kind of difficult to manage all these shells in different windows
> (sometimes I run irb, MSYS bash, CMD and Cygwin bash simultanously).
>
> Therefore I'm using Console2, which may explains some odd input
> behaviour.
>

I'm using it too and don't see the odd behavior you're describing.

I'm using 2.00.146 version

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Luis Lavena