in reply to perlmodule Term::Readline::Gnu

If you are aiming to be portable, you should use the common interface Term::ReadLine, which is part of the perl core. Term::ReadLine contains a stub (which itself doesn't implement command line history), and a wrapper for whichever of Term::ReadLine::Perl or Term::ReadLine::Gnu is installed.

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