Re^2: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe

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Re^3: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2011 at 18:36 UTC
libtermcap.a or libcurses.a is missing. Anybody know what I should be doing? Install libetrmcap or libcurses, obviously :) Or try Term::ReadLine::Perl	[reply]
Re^4: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe by Stamm (Sexton) on Nov 24, 2011 at 18:47 UTC
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...	[reply]
Re^5: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe by cavac (Prior) on Nov 24, 2011 at 19:12 UTC
It seemed a perfectly simple and reasonable luxury to have for a command-line program... Well, it is perfectly simple and reasonable on Linux and Unix. As for Windows, for the longest time it has been a luxury. First Microsoft OS to support it was IMHO Windows XP in 2003, and it's still not very good. Not comparable in the way modern shells like bash do it by actually "knowing" with files are even compatible with the command you just typed. Like doing mplayer h<TAB> might choose hello.mov over hello.c when configured correctly. If you really want to know why Perl modules don't support every usefull feature on every shell, take a look at Wikipedia's comparison of computer shells. Don't use '#ff0000': use Acme::AutoColor; my $redcolor = RED(); All colors subject to change without notice.	[reply]
Re^5: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2011 at 19:08 UTC
I don't know how to install those libraries. It's not Perl and I can only find resources for Unix. :-( Bwaaah, boo hoo hooo, waaaah :D Here is a guide http://ingar.satgnu.net/devenv/mingw32/base.html It won't tell you where to download these two particular ones, but the same instructions can apply And tab completion doesn't work with Term::ReadLine::Perl either. I do believe history, the alternative cavac was presenting uses arrow keys (up/down) For me, with arrow keys, his example cycles through a history list (the program source, since i typed it in interactively, `perl -` )	[reply] [d/l]


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