IRB: Arrow keys not working (neither Insert, home, etc)

Ruby
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Hello,

I have Ruby 1.8.5 installed in Ubuntu 6.06 (Kernel: 2.6.15-27-686 )
IRB works fine with special characters (like accented a, and tilded n)
but the arrow keys produce the following input:

Up: ^[[A
Right: ^[[C
Down: ^[[B
Left: ^[[D

The other special keys: Insert, Home, Prev Page, Del, End and Nex
Page produce similar results.

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Aníbal wrote:

The other special keys: Insert, Home, Prev Page, Del, End and Nex
Page produce similar results.

Is this your first exposure to Ruby and/or IRB? Did you have Ruby 1.8.4
before this? Did it work? Is this a new problem not seen before? Is
Ubuntu
your first Linux? Are you typing on a remote terminal or typing directly
into, say, a Konsole session under X windows?

These are the sorts of questions that spring to mind when trying to
offer a
useful answer.

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Aníbal wrote:

Page produce similar results.
It looks like IRB might not be compiled with readline support. I’m
not sure how to check this, however.

Michael G.
grzm seespotcode net

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it can be caused by either readline or console reasons
u should know more details to solve it

2006/11/13, Michael G. [email protected]: