Thanks Bill,

Will try asap. Seems like a genuine IRB issue though.

Lars

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Bill Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had the same issue and found that adding the Readline module shown in this
> blog post to my .irbc file did the trick.
>
> http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/04/23/tweaking-irb
>
> I had to make this change to it though:
>
> #LOG = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-history"
>  LOG = IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE]
>
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Lars George <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have this issue as of late that my shell history is not saved
>> anymore. I have old commands there, and the history file has exactly
>> 100 lines as specified in the .irbrc
>>
>> $ cat ~/.irbrc
>> require 'irb/ext/save-history'
>> ARGV.concat [ "--readline", "--prompt-mode", "simple" ]
>> IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 100
>> IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-save-history"
>>
>> (I added the --readline line in an attempt to fix the issue, but to no
>> avail)
>>
>> Did anyone else have this issue? Just wondering if that is a Ruby,
>> JRuby, or hirb issue.
>>
>> Lars
>>
>

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