You may have to manually install the Gnu Readline library. It’s becoming
enough of a pain in the butt to get installed, that an Alien::ReadLine might be
called for...
> On Apr 13, 2018, at 3:23 PM, William Schmidt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hmm,
>
> Tried that.
>
> $ cpanm Term::ReadLine::Gnu
> Term::ReadLine::Gnu is up to date. (1.35)
>
> Does it require config or enabling?
>
> Will
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Craig DeForest <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> The problem is that Term::ReadLine is suffering from bit rot. Try installing
> Term::ReadLine::Gnu.
>
>> On Apr 13, 2018, at 3:14 PM, William Schmidt <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello piddlers,
>>
>> perldl is one great prototyping tool, and I am making great progress
>> understanding and mastering PDL running it in macOS, but thus far, enabling
>> history list and command line editing inside perldl has been a total bust.
>> The docos say the command line editor is emacs-like. I would prefer vi but
>> any command line editing is welcome, given how I am using perldl to learn
>> PDL. However, I cannot enable the history list nor edit a previous line
>> other than doing very precise cut and paste. Here is the initial
>> announcement when I start perldl:
>>
>> $ perldl
>> perlDL shell v1.357
>> PDL comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, see the file
>> 'COPYING' in the PDL distribution. This is free software and you
>> are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions, see
>> the same file for details.
>> ReadLines, NiceSlice, MultiLines enabled
>> Reading /Users/carly/.perldlrc...
>> Found docs database
>> /Users/carly/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.3/lib/site_perl/5.20.3/darwin-2level/PDL/pdldoc.db
>> Type 'help' for online help
>> Type 'demo' for online demos
>> Loaded PDL v2.018 (supports bad values)
>>
>>
>> Notice, ReadLines is enabled.
>>
>> And here is what I get with the l command, 'l', not '1';
>>
>> Can't locate object method "GetHistory" via package "Term::ReadLine::Stub"
>> at /Users/carly/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.3/bin/perldl line 313,
>> <STDIN> line 2.
>>
>> What am I missing? What Perl/PDL modules must be present? Getting history
>> and command editing working would truly make perldl an effective learning
>> tool.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Will Schmidt
>>
>>
>>
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