JRuby does not use libedit or readline, so these files are not readable.
In addition, JRuby does not support vi editing mode.
irb(main):001:0> Readline.vi_editing_mode? NotImplementedError: vi_editing_mode?() function is unimplemented on this machine from org/jruby/ext/Readline.java:358:in `basic_quote_characters' from (irb):1:in `evaluate' from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1022:in `eval' from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1338:in `loop' from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1131:in `catch' from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1131:in `catch' from /usr/local/jruby/bin/jirb:13:in `(root)'
Admittedly, support for the JRuby Readline may be desirable.
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