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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:51:13 +1100 (EST)
From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
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Cc: Carl Makin <Carl.Makin@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
Subject: Re: misc/22235: ReadLine/ReadKey perl modules (part of CPAN-1.5[78])
 do not provide command history under 4.1-RELEASE. Close it please.
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Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to ask you would you please close this problem report
(22235/Readline unusable with Perl) ?

The report was a false alarm in that while the symptoms were genuine,
the cause is not related to FreeBSD.

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 gnats-admin@FreeBSD.org wrote:

> Thank you very much for your problem report.
> It has the internal identification `misc/22235'.
> The individual assigned to look at your
> report is: freebsd-bugs. 
> 
> You can access the state of your problem report at any time
> via this link:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22235
> 
> >Category:       misc
> >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> >Synopsis:       ReadLine/ReadKey perl modules (part of CPAN-1.5[78]) do not provide command history under 4.1-RELEASE
> >Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 22 23:10:01 PDT 2000
> 

The problem is caused by having EDITOR set to vi in (csh users) .cshrc.

Unsetting the EDITOR environment variable deals with the symptoms
(ie command history works fine, command editing works Ok).

The fault (if any apart from the writer) is in Perl I think because
when EDITOR is set to vi, command history *is* available with vi edit
commands (<Esc>k, h, l $, A, dd etc); it does not work however as
command history works in bash or csh (accessible with the "arrow"
keys).

I beg your pardon for this stupid report.

Yours sincerely,

S Hopcroft,

IP Austtralia





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