"Chas. Owens" <chas.ow...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 23:10, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> "Chas. Owens" <chas.ow...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>>> How big of a chore would it be to include code into the script that >>>> creates some kind of editor like environment and allows bash style >>>> completion? >>>> >>>> I'm a very low level perl coder.. and will need pointers to some clues >>>> about how to get this done, and incorporated into my scripts. >>>> >>>> In shell scripting, at least with bash, taking input from user is done >>>> with `read line' but you can say 'read -e line' and the input is >>>> suddenly done with bash completion.. and I think a few other niceties. >>>> >>>> Is there something similar in perl? >>> snip >>> >>> Take a look at [Term::Readline][1], [Term::Readline::GNU][2], and >>> [Term::Readline::Perl][3]. >> >> I'm sad to say after installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu and looking at the >> the 1014 lines of perldoc Term::ReadLine::Gnu.. > snip
Haa... yes of course.... a much smarter approach thanks.. I guess there would be serious portability problems on any of the windows os's though. Thankfully I don't use this script there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
