I feel a little reticent about giving further advice as you seem to be doing pretty much the opposite of what I'm saying. Regarding installing Term::ReadLine::Perl, I suggested trying this "In the absence of other solutions": you chose to do this first. Regarding Perlbrew/MacPorts/ActiveState, I said "You may want to consider these options before adding or updating modules used by your system Perl.": you chose to add/update Term::ReadLine::Perl on your system Perl. However, it's your computer and you should be free to break it in whatever interesting ways you see fit.

I have a number of Perls installed - so you can "go that route":

System Perl
$ /usr/bin/perl -v

This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 3 (v5.12.3) built for darwin-th
+read-multi-2level
(with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
...

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Perlbrew Perl
$ /usr/bin/env perl -v

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for darwin-th
+read-multi-2level
...

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MacPorts Perl
$ /opt/local/bin/perl -v

This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 3 (v5.12.3) built for darwin-mu
+lti-2level
...

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I tried your code above (presumably /Users/mike/readline.pl) with each of these three Perls. I was unable to reproduce your problem. I received no error or warning messages. I entered the same text for all of them: 

$ pm_readline_perl_mac.pl
Enter: 
> 1+2
$ pm_readline_perl_mac.pl
Enter: 
> blah blah
$

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And finally, just for completeness, I haven't set PERL_RL: 

$ echo $PERL_RL

$

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-- Ken

In reply to Re^5: Term ReadLine in OS X by kcott
in thread Term ReadLine in OS X by mightymouse3062

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