Have you checked whether POE::Wheel::ReadLine::Gnu passes POE::Wheel::ReadLine's tests?

Not yet, since I'm pretty sure it doesn't pass the tests - for now. I wanted to have that working first, and care about compatibility and tests later... Ill update the OP with results as I get them.

Thanks for answering; I'll notice the mailing list.

update: ...and thank you for POE! It rocks! ;-)

update 2: Test output:

perl t/30_loops/00_base/wheel_readline-gnu.pm
1..6
ok 1 - plain typing
ok 2 - backspace
ok 3 - forward/backward
not ok 4 - delete words
#   Failed test 'delete words'
#   at t/30_loops/00_base/wheel_readline-gnu.pm line 306.
#          got: ' two four'
#     expected: 'two four'
ok 5 - case changes
not ok 6 - transpose
#   Failed test 'transpose'
#   at t/30_loops/00_base/wheel_readline-gnu.pm line 306.
#          got: 'two one 12'
#     expected: 'two one 21'
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 6.
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The failures only show differences between the two implementations; for GNU readline:

• 'delete words' - killing a word at bol (beginning-of-line) doesn't kill a following space
• 'transpose' - transposing two previous chars is possible at eol

The tests for POE::Wheel::ReadLine are far from complete; I didn't yet look into the arguments to new() and how they would translate to P::W::RL::Gnu, so I suspect incompatibilities in areas not covered by the tests (yet).

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