Re: What editing mode am I in when interacting with a Perl script using OS X Terminal? Because the keyboard works differently to a normal shell.

Hi Cody Fendant, I program on OS X and for interactive scripts I use Term::ReadLine::Perl5, which implements most of the Gnu library in Perl, so you have the features roboticus described, as well as your arrow keys back.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Term::Readline::Perl5;

my $term = Term::ReadLine::Perl5->new();
my $name = $term->readline( 'Name? ' );
print "Hello, $name\n";

__END__
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