[ABE.pm] perl debugger history?

Phil Lawrence phil at five-lawrences.com
Fri Jun 10 07:24:53 PDT 2005


Faber Fedor wrote:
> How does one get a history of commands in the perl debugger (perl -d)?
> I want to be able to up-arrow to the previous command and edit it.
> 
> When I RTFM, it says "if you install the Term::ReadKey and
> Term::ReadLine modules from CPAN, you will have full editing
> capabilities much like GNU readline(3) provides".  Well, they're both
> installed and I don't have up/down arrows.   Left/right seem to work
> okay.

Odd.  Well, on AIX I know I've had to install the GNU text utilities so 
that this would work.  But under linux I'd assume this was already done 
for you.

Phil


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