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Re: Best Perl REPL/Shell on Win (and Linux)?

by tobyink (Canon)
on Jan 09, 2020 at 17:03 UTC ( [id://11111253]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Best Perl REPL/Shell on Win (and Linux)?

I use Reply and is has pretty much everything on your requirements and nice-to-have lists, but no idea how well it performs on Windows. Have you tried Term::Readline::Gnu to get history, tab-completion, etc working? I don't know how well it works on Windows, but it's very good on Linux.

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Re^2: Best Perl REPL/Shell on Win (and Linux)?
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 09, 2020 at 18:37 UTC
    > Have you tried Term::Readline::Gnu ...

    That's not that easy

    (Please correct me someone if I get the terminology wrong.)

    The standard console window on Windows is cmd.exe while it's a term(inal) on Linux.

    They have very different terminal emulations that includes escape sequences to navigate and write the console.

    Term::ReadLine::Gnu and Term::ReadKey are XS module for such *nix consoles.

    Now Git-Bash seems to be such a terminal, but comes with it's own bundled Perl and installing new modules there doesn't seem to be a good idea and fails anyway.

    Though it might be possible to run a different Perl installation there using Term::ReadLine::Perl (a non XS backend)

    But the cleanest solution would be a Term::ReadLine backend which translates to CMD consoles.

    > to get history, tab-completion, etc working?

    most of it actually works, it's only the key-binding which is not triggering.

    Cheers Rolf
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