Re^2: Term::ReadLine and Term::ANSIColor don't play well on Windows

[kubrat]

The problem is that Term::ANSIColor does work on its own and on cmd.exe.

But it won't work when you try to output colors through Term::ReadLine's OUT handle on cmd.exe. And it is only this combination that does not work. If you try the same thing on Linux then all is well.

Also, as far as I can tell there are other modules that expected it to work like Devel::REPL for example.

[LanX]

Even on Linux one is confronted with coloring problems e.g. when trying to have syntax highlighting within the debugger.

Term::ReadLine is only a wrapper using which ever underlying module is installed. The full list of features is only supplied by Term::ReadLine::Gnu , which builds on a Gnu-Readline programmed in C.

So what are you using on Win???

Since finding support for these issues in GNU-Readline isn't easy, I suppose that only reimplementing the full library in Perl can help here.

Are you volunteering?