Re^5: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe

[Stamm]

You're right, it doesn't work with Term::Complete. I thought I had tested it. As you said, it doesn't even use Term::ReadLine.

It works with Term::Shell. Here with the pod example slightly modified:

package MyShell;

$ENV{TERM} = '';

use base qw(Term::Shell);

sub run_command1  { print "command 1!\n"; }
sub smry_command1 { "what does command1 do?" }
sub help_command1 { "Help on 'command1', whatever that may be..." }

sub run_command2 { print "command 2!\n"; }


package main;

my $shell = MyShell->new;
$shell->cmdloop;

Or directly with Term::ReadLine:

use Term::ReadLine;
  
$ENV{TERM} = '';
  
my $term = Term::ReadLine->new('Tab Completion');
my $prompt = ">>> ";

&readline::rl_basic_commands( qw(set quit type test run exit) );
  
while ( defined ( $_ = $term->readline($prompt) ) )
{
    exit if /exit/ or /quit/;
    print $_, "\n";
}

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you, that seems usable

For me, if i start typing something, and hit tab, it gets completed

This i expected

But if I only type tab, nothing happens until I hit tab again, at which point a newline is printed, then the available tab choices and a newline, then the prompt again

This i didn't expect, I kinda expected it to cycle through list of completions, like cmd.exe does for filenames, like my demo from earlier, with shift+tab going in reverse (as is common, but which my version doesn't do)

At least it usable