rl_basic_commands seems to be a Term::ReadLine::Perl or Term::ReadLine::Perl5 only thing.

You'll need to install one of them and according to Term::ReadLine doku's last paragraph set $ENV{PERL_RL}="Perl" prior² to use Term::ReadLine¹

As a side note: I had no problems yet just using Term::ReadLine::Gnu with tab completion.

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

¹) Term::ReadLine is kind of a wrapper module proxying to other Term::ReadLine:* modules

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²) since use happens very early in compilation you'll most likely need to set the ENV within a BEGIN block.

(That's for sure a silly interface, Term::ReadLine should have a config option for the importer.)

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³) both should work, but looking thru this Perl4 code with ' as package separator is aching my eyes...

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looking into the source revealed the following line as fall back if PERL_RL is not found in %ENV

  eval "use Term::ReadLine::Gnu; 1" or eval "use Term::ReadLine::Perl; 1";

This means Term::ReadLine::Perl is only used by default if Term::ReadLine::Gnu wasn't found! Since you are using a T::RL::Perl* only feature you MUST set the env.

Maybe check with print $term->ReadLine; which module was loaded

In reply to Re: about Term::ReadLine and it's imported function by LanX
in thread about Term::ReadLine and it's imported function by Discipulus

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