Term::Readline history

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Re: Term::ReadLine history
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Dec 03, 2013 at 08:03 UTC

Even if the same version of the Term::ReadLine module is installed under each OS, its behaviour still depends on its local environment. So:

Check that the environment variable PERL_RL has the same value (if any) on both platforms.
Run perl -MTerm::ReadLine -we 'print Term::ReadLine->new()->ReadLine();' on both platforms and verify that the same ReadLine clone is loaded in each.
If it is (e.g. the output of the above command gives Term::ReadLine::Perl in both cases), check that the same version of this ReadLine clone is installed on each platform.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re: Term::Readline history
by taint (Chaplain) on Dec 03, 2013 at 06:46 UTC

Did you, by chance compare versions, and their corresponding man pages, pod's for any differences between the two?

--Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;

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Re: Term::Readline history
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 03, 2013 at 05:53 UTC

You didn't show code reproducing the problem. Why??

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Re: Term::Readline history
by rockyb (Scribe) on Dec 03, 2013 at 22:31 UTC

If you can't get Term::ReadLine::Gnu installed (perhaps you don't have the underlying GNU Readline installed or perhaps you don't have XS support), Term::Readline::Perl5 has the same history mechanism as Term::ReadLine::Gnu and it is pure Perl although it requires Term::ReadKey.

Neither Term::ReadLine by itself nor Term::ReadLine::Perl have history. But again as the others in this thread have indicated, the setting of environment variable PERL_RL and what Perl modules you have installed in addition to Term::ReadLine e.g. Term::ReadLine::Gnu or Term::ReadLine::Perl5 matters here.

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