Hi

Please give me a hint how to manipulate Term::Readline output after it was already printed.

I suppose the trick is to send a control sequence which erases the line and reprints it.

My aim is to hack a proof of concept for syntax highlighting in the perl debugger when used interactively as a shell

From digging into perl5db.pl I can see that Term::Readline is used for reading and a hashref $rl_attribs is used to provide call-back functions like db_complete()

        $rl_attribs->{completion_function} = \&db_complete;

So is it possible to provide a similar hook which reacts on word_break_characters and then surrounds the already printed word with control-sequences for coloring?

Examples typing "print" does nothing (printed black) but typing: "print " or "print(" activates a call back which modifies "print" to light blue.

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Interactive post-coloring of readline input? by LanX

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