Hi

I want to hack my own Perl shell which works alike on Win and Linux w/o resorting to bash.

But now I'm banging my head against a strange C&P problem:

This is what I get after copying from the Perl-debugger started with perl -dE0 inside a cmd.exe on Win

+ DB<1> say for 1..3 1 2 3 + DB<2>

But that's what I originally see in the console

DB<1> say for 1..3 1 2 3 DB<2>

I was already experimenting for hours to find the reason for the strange indentation of newlines.

Pasting the same lines into emacs and examining the hex-codes show exactly 74 spaces "\x20" in front of the DB<*> prompts.

My guess is that Perl is printing some "newline" codes are emittited that windows doesn't like.

FWIW: settings of the cmd.exe tell me it's running with

  • Codepage cp850
  • The "LineSelection" option is active.
  • TERM is set to dumb, but erasing it has no effect

    C:\>set TERM TERM=dumb C:\>

    Strangely copying from outside perl-applications on the cmd-prompt level doesn't show that problem. ( reply has the same issue)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    update

    In reply to (WIN) copy and pasting from Perl-prints inside cmd.exe by LanX

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