----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hernan gonzalez" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 5:23 AM
Subject: [Perldl] perldl : line editing in windows


> I'm trying perldl in windows xp
> Is there any way of using 'standard' (doskey or vi or matlab or octave
> or ...) keys in commandl-line editing and history browsing? Forgive me
> those emacs fans out there, but I really hate to type Ctrl-F Ctrl-B
> and so (they work very slow, BTW, but that's not the point, I want the
> arrow keys). I'm using PDL 2.4.4, ReadLines enabled.
>

Yep, when I start up the perldl shell I see:
ReadLines, NiceSlice, MultiLines  enabled

Are you running the perldl shell in cmd.exe ?

For me, on XP (and Vista), the arrow keys seem to work fine. The left and 
right keys move the cursor along the command line, thus allowing editing of 
the command line, as expected. And the up and down keys take me backwards 
and forwards through the commands that have already been run, also as 
expected.

Does that not work for you ? Or do I misunderstand you ?

I don't understand your problem with Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B. You say they work 
slowly ... but for me they do nothing useful at all. If I hit Ctrl-F, a ^F 
appears on the command line, and if I hit Ctrl-B, a ^B appears on the 
command line. That's all that happens. Is something else supposed to happen 
?

Cheers,
Rob 


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