Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to have cpan shell not act like primative ungainly turd

2015-01-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Friesenhahn writes: > It order to escape this, you can install Perl from source code > compiled with GCC. Expect it to be an adventure. hehe... thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to have cpan shell not act like primative ungainly turd

2015-01-09 Thread John D Groenveld
In message , Bob Friesenhahn writes: >I suspect that this depends on if Perl is linked with GNU readline (a >library) on my Solaris 10 system where I installed Perl myself, >command line editing and history works properly. Term::ReadKey and Term::ReadLine::[Gnu|Perl] >It order to escape this,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to have cpan shell not act like primative ungainly turd

2015-01-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Harry Putnam wrote: Can any cpan user tell me if there are things I can do so the cpan shell behaves more like a modern bash shell?... so that walking back thru history doesn't just insert a bunch of control char. I suspect that this depends on if Perl is linked with GNU re

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to have cpan shell not act like primative ungainly turd

2015-01-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Can any cpan user tell me if there are things I can do so the cpan shell behaves more like a modern bash shell?... so that walking back thru history doesn't just insert a bunch of control char. Modern bash is very editable, and history wise, yet cpan is like using the ancient borne `sh' It makes