Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:23:04 +1100 (EST) From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.oRG Subject: ReadLine support in Perl (perl -de 1, cpan shell etc) broken in 4.1-RELEASE ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010201322350.19413-100000@stan.aipo.gov.au>
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to ask, please would you provide me some suggestions about dealing with a vexing problme with Perl on two new 4.1-RELEASE installations ? The problem is that when Bundle::CPAN (1.57) is installed to get history and line editing (very useful in the debugger, where I spend a lot of time.), it doesn't work. When I press the uparrow key I hear a bleep and the previous lines input doesn't appear opposite the current debugger prompt eg this does *not* happen on the problem machines. DB<3> $x = "ReadLine fine here" DB<4> $x = "ReadLine fine here" # after pressing Up Arrow on a # 4.1-R box that was upgraded # with sysinstall. The problem occurs - under X and on a console - is not affected by changing the term type It does not happen on boxes that have been upgraded to 4.1-R with sysinstall. The commnand history and editing functions in the shell (/bin/csh) work fine. This may be a Perl problem rather than a FreeBSD problem; your telling me how to distinguish them would be helpful. Thank you, Yours sincerely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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