I was recently also struggeling with T:RL. as it seems Gnu-Readline is the reference implementation and all alternatives have practically no POD.

If you don't wanna install an XS module, I'd recommend to take one of the pure Perl implemantations, which have practically no dependencies, i.e. you could simply copy them into your distribution and modify them as you wish (but check licence before!)

see %Features of T::RL to know which functionality is supported by underlying module.

  DB<105> $term->Features
 => {
  addHistory    => 1,
  appname       => 1,
  attribs       => 1,
  autohistory   => 1,
  getHistory    => 1,
  minline       => 1,
  newTTY        => 1,
  ornaments     => 1,
  preput        => 1,
  readHistory   => 1,
  setHistory    => 1,
  stiflehistory => 1,
  tkRunning     => 1,
  writeHistory  => 1,
}

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I suppose preput means what your looking for.

HTH

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re: emulate the Term::ReadLine's two arguments form by LanX
in thread emulate the Term::ReadLine's two arguments form by Discipulus

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