Bug #14675: On Windows Readline.redisplay raises NoMethodError

• Status: Third Party's Issue
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x64-mingw32]
• Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN

[graywolf (Gray Wolf)]

On Windows Readline.redisplay raises NoMethodError while according to docs it should raise NotImplementedError.

[MSP-Greg (Greg L)]

At present, RubyInstaller2 builds are using RbReadline (the rb-readline gem). RubyInstaller builds also used it.

The gem is not really maintained. I believe Lars Kanis is working on updating the readline package to work with Windows, but I have no idea how far along he is.

I do build ruby-loco with the MSYS2 readline package, and I believe that it passes all tests but one. I recall that it's rather 'choppy' when used in a console window, but its been a while since I looked at it.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Third Party's Issue

It's issue of https://github.com/ConnorAtherton/rb-readline