Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-05-06 Thread Chris Marshall
Will- I'm glad you got things going with command line editing support for perldl.  There is also an updated PDL shell called pdl2 which provides some improved support for completions of various types if you have the needed module dependencies installed. If you try to run pdl2 and the

Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-05-04 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Hi Will You could try the SciPDL download which lives within it’s own kitchen sink and likely won’t break on new MacOS. (Also includes GNU::Readline) /usr/bin/python includes an editable command line, why can’t this be built in to perl? I find the whole Term::Readline::XX thing confusing.

Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-04-13 Thread William Schmidt
That did it. Man, having an editable history list is primo. I think this is another example of how badly macOS High Sierra sucks. Apple now wants us to install 10.13.4 which will again break everything that was compiled with the 10.13.3 Xcode libs, as the download includes new libraries and

Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-04-13 Thread Craig DeForest
Hey, cool! Ya learn something new every day. > On Apr 13, 2018, at 4:21 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: > > I suggest installing Term::ReadLine::Perl which > is a pure perl implementation of the readline > capability. I use it on the windows PDL since > there is no GNU

Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-04-13 Thread Chris Marshall
I suggest installing Term::ReadLine::Perl which is a pure perl implementation of the readline capability.  I use it on the windows PDL since there is no GNU readline for microsoft com windows. --Chris On 4/13/2018 18:15, William Schmidt wrote: Progress, but no cigar, yet... brew link --force

Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-04-13 Thread Craig DeForest
Try setting TERM to just “xterm”? > On Apr 13, 2018, at 4:15 PM, William Schmidt > wrote: > > Progress, but no cigar, yet... > > brew link --force readline > > I downloaded the latest library and then attempted to reinstall > Term::ReadLine::Gnu, with the

Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-04-13 Thread William Schmidt
Progress, but no cigar, yet... brew link --force readline I downloaded the latest library and then attempted to reinstall Term::ReadLine::Gnu, with the following error in the build log: This part seems correct: Found `/usr/lib/libtermcap.dylib'. cc -I/usr/local/opt/readline/include -fno-common

Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-04-13 Thread Craig DeForest
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 > wrote: > > Hmm, > > Tried that. > > $ cpanm

Re: [Pdl-general] History list and command editing in perldl

2018-04-13 Thread William Schmidt
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 wrote: > The problem is that Term::ReadLine is suffering from bit rot. Try >