On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, montana wrote:

you need to compile irb with readline support - eg. the readline libraries
must be on your system when ruby is configured.

-a

> Hi Everyone-
>
> I'm new to Ruby and just starting to learn the "pick axe":)
>
> I am running the built-in "ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0]" version of ruby on my TiBook running 10.2.1.
>
> I would like to set-up irb to be able to go back in the history of commands in order to save on some typing. But when I press the up arrow, I get the standard terminal "^[[A" funk. How do I set irb to keep a history of my commands for future use? I figured you could do this with an .irbrc file, but I do not know what to add to the file to get it to do this.
>
> Thanks in Advance for your help:)
> SA
>
>

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