Re: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe

[cavac]

Can't really help you about tab completion. You could read in the keypresses chararcter by character and write your own parser. But i guess this should already be a solved problem.

A workaround would be to use Term::Readline. You could - for example - prepolulate the history. Something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Term::ReadLine;

my $term = Term::ReadLine->new('Tabtest');
my $prompt = "Test your tabs, guv: ";

if ($^O eq "MSWin32" || $^O eq "dos") {
    my $INPUT;
    open($INPUT, "<con")
        and $term->newTTY($INPUT, $term->OUT);
}

foreach my $command (qw[print hello echo foo bar baz]) {
    $term->addhistory($command);
}

while(defined(my $line = $term->readline($prompt))) {
        chomp $line;
        exit if($line eq "exit");
        print "I don't know how to '$line'\n";
        $term->addhistory($line);
}

Not quite what you wanted, i know, but i'm also fresh out of ideas.

[Stamm]

Thanks for your answer. And yes, I thought it would have been solved too.

As for your code, I'm not sure I understand. Command history already works.

Maybe I should have Term::ReadLine::Gnu. But I can't install it. It says libtermcap.a or libcurses.a is missing. Anybody know what I should be doing?

[Anonymous Monk]

libtermcap.a or libcurses.a is missing. Anybody know what I should be doing?

Install libetrmcap or libcurses, obviously :)

Or try Term::ReadLine::Perl

[Stamm]

I don't know how to install those libraries. It's not Perl and I can only find resources for Unix. :-(

And tab completion doesn't work with Term::ReadLine::Perl either.

It seemed a perfectly simple and reasonable luxury to have for a command-line program...