control characters for prompt editing

Bobby Kleemann rkleeman at neta.com
Wed Sep 20 15:09:57 CDT 2000


~sdpm~
Look at the set of utilities that Readline provides.  There have been
several implementations of a Perl shell, I remember seeing an article on
it in the recent Perl Journal which may also be what you are looking for.

 _ _ _
 Bobby Kleemann <rkleeman at neta.com>
 http://www.neta.com/~rkleeman/

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, John R. Comeau wrote:

> ~sdpm~
> I'm looking for a Perl module that will help me build a user interface
> similar to the Unix shell tcsh.  In tcsh, you can edit your
> paritally-entered command using control characters like control-A
> (go to start of line), control-E (go to end of line), ESC-f (advance
> over word), etc.
> 
> So I'd like to write a program, preferrably using a Perl module from
> CPAN, that allows the user to enter a command and edit it using the
> control and escape keys like tcsh.  I looked at several CPAN modules
> in the Term family but couldn't find one that clearly had this
> feature.
> 
> These editing control characters are used by emacs and Matlab as well
> tcsh, so I think they're common enough that a module would've been
> written.
> 
> -- 
> John Comeau (john.comeau at conexant.com) 858-713-3593 (W)
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Sie beschimpfte ihn, einen Vogel zu haben.
> 
> She grumbled at him and said he had a screw loose.
> ~sdpm~
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