How on earth do ya get up arrow and tab completion to work in Term::ReadLine?

There must be a way to do it since the example on the man page does the addhistory. There's a bunch of talk about ornaments and Features in the man pages too. Perhaps it takes a working knowledge of the C version of readline?

I don't think the Term::ReadLine stuff is supposed to be the end of the line. I read somewhere that they intended it to be a base object for other packages? 

#!/looser/nib/perl

use strict;
use Term::ReadLine;

&start_stupid_math_shell;

sub start_stupid_math_shell {
    my $term = new Term::ReadLine 'Simple Perl calc';
    my $prompt = "Enter your arithmetic expression: ";
    
    while ( defined ($_ = $term->readline($prompt)) ) {
        my $res = eval($_), "\n";
        warn $@ if $@;
        print $res, "\n" unless $@;
        $term->addhistory($_) if /\S/;
    }
}

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In reply to ReadLine Tabn'Up? by jettero

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