Hi Igor,
thanks for helping Sean and shedding light on the problem he had with my code.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:02:49 +0200
Igor Dovgiy <ivd.pri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> Let's follow the documentation, shall we? )
>
> -- readline(PROMPT[,PREPUT])
> Gets an input line, with actual GNU Readline support. Trailing newline is
> removed. Returns undef on EOF.
> PREPUT is an optional argument meaning the initial value of input.
> The optional argument PREPUT is granted only if the value preput is
> in Features.
>
> It's easy to check that Term::ReadLine::Stub (used as implementing module
> by default, it seems) doesn't support preput feature. Just check
> $rl->Features.
> But Term::ReadLine::Gnu does, as it's an interface to a very
> powerful {libreadline} term library.
>
> So install Term::ReadLine::Gnu module (if needed, libreadline-dev as well)
> - and have fun with preput text without changing a line in Shlomi code. )
>
> -- iD
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