in reply to Catching INT in Term::ReadLine::Gnu->readline()
Your code as supplied works for me in that it produces the output which I believe you were expecting:
$ perl cctrap.pl Term::ReadLine::Stub try CTRL-C in some text here :abcd^C caught CODE(0x194e9a0)INT xyz $
The input sequence is: abcd^Cxyz<RETURN>
This runs with perl v5.20.3 and Term::ReadLine 1.14 from bash on Linux. Maybe you just need to avoid Term::ReadLine::Gnu?
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