My version of ruby was compiled with editline (on os x) and I miss the features of readline in irb.
How do I recompile ruby with readline support?
My version of ruby was compiled with editline (on os x) and I miss
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My version of ruby was compiled with editline (on os x) and I miss the features of readline in irb.
How do I recompile ruby with readline support?
readlineto/usr/local--with-readline-dir=/usr/localswitchor if you have downloaded the ruby sources earlier and built it by hand,
ext/readlinefolder of your ruby source treeruby extconf.rband then run themake && make installprocedure for ruby.