Hi

I'm very used to tweak the perl-debugger for my needs to get a shell experience.

Under Win it's not that easy anymore because of the lack of CTRL shortcuts.

I can get used to the fact that CMD translates CTRL-a to select-all instead of beginning-of-line ...

... but CTRL-r for reverse searching the history is a life saver!

  DB<1> 

(reverse-i-search)`':

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Now I tried calling the debugger under Git-Bash, which has a decent xterm emulation under bash. Unless when I call perl -de0 this is lost.

I also tried to install Term::ReadLine::Perl and Term::ReadLine::Zoid and did set %PERL_RL% accordingly.

I also tried installing Devel::REPL (incl. dependencies) and Reply but no luck with reverse search.

My best bet ATM is to run the debugger under emacs.

so ... what do you use and does it work the same under Win and Linux?

My requirements:

Nice-to-Have This seems to be all available for Linux, but poorly tested resp. hard to achieve under Win.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Best Perl REPL/Shell on Win (and Linux)? by LanX

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