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

How can I enable perl -d command editing? On one machine I can use ^P, ^B etc to edit the command line but on another machine it does not work.

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Re: perl -d command editing
by jand (Friar) on Mar 16, 2003 at 05:02 UTC
    Do you have Term::ReadLine::Gnu or Term::ReadLine::Perl installed? I think they are used by the debugger, when present (via Term::ReadLine).
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