The Perl debugger is implementing tab-completion using Term::ReadLine , though not sure if this also works under windows and the API is a bit awkward .

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update

and in 5.18 (linux) at least the debugger resp. Term::ReadLine::Gnu::XS is broken in this respect :/

  DB<1> $xxx=1

            #hitting tab after $x
  DB<2> p $xCan't use string ("::") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" 
+in use at /usr/share/perl/5.18/perl5db.pl line 9513.
 at /usr/share/perl/5.18/perl5db.pl line 9513.
    DB::db_complete('$x', 'p $x', 2) called at /usr/lib/perl5/Term/Rea
+dLine/Gnu/XS.pm line 575

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DB::db_complete shows the configuration in the debugger.

In reply to Re: Tab completion of path from prompt from within Perl script by LanX
in thread Tab completion of path from prompt from within Perl script by nysus

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