[Rubycocoa-devel 1434] Re: Libedit bindings in irb (1.8.7)

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Eric Christopherson echri****@gmail*****
Tue Feb 16 14:37:47 JST 2010


On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Eric Christopherson
<echri****@gmail*****> wrote:
> (Cross-posted to rubycocoa-talk and rubycocoa-devel. Apologies for spam.)
>
> The other day I found out that RubyCocoa's irb (1.8.7 on Snow Leopard,
> at least) uses libedit (Editline) instead of readline to provide line
> editing functions. I created a ~/.editrc file with key bindings to
> match my ~/.inputrc (for readline), and they seemed to work just fine.
> However, yesterday I noticed that none of my new key bindings work
> anymore. The ~/.editrc file is still the same. What could have
> changed? How can I make it work again?

Apparently it quit working when I put comments in my .editrc (using
#). Comments aren't allowed, as far as I can tell.




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