Term::ReadLine ignores .inputrc

pike has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I recently started to use Term::ReadLine and it works great, except that the backspace key doesn't delete backwards (in fact it doesn't do anything). I have the keybinding for backspace defined in my .inputrc file, so my guess is that Term::Readline just ignores the .inputrc. Can I change that?

Oh, and BTW I still haven't found out how to make DEL delete forward and Backspace backward. I am using bash on RedHat 7.1. Does anyone know?

Thanks, pike

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Re: Term::ReadLine ignores .inputrc by zuqif (Hermit) on Oct 24, 2001 at 16:07 UTC
off the top of me head, try man stty something like stty erase ^H !? the 'qif;	[reply]
Re: Term::ReadLine ignores .inputrc by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 24, 2001 at 18:52 UTC
`Term::ReadLine::Perl` doesn't pay attention to `.inputrc` files (at least I don't see it trying to do so looking through the source). `Term::ReadLine::Gnu` sits on top of the C readline library and probably would be more likely to honour your `.inputrc`. Update: `Term::ReadLine::readline` which `::Perl` uses apparently does pay some attention to `.inputrc` files. See Re: Term::ReadLine ignores .inputrc for more information.	[reply]
Re: Re: Term::ReadLine ignores .inputrc by pike (Monk) on Oct 25, 2001 at 13:59 UTC
Correct, `Term::ReadLine::Gnu` does the trick. Thanks! pike	[reply] [d/l]