Perl debugger up/down key

rhymejerky has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When I use the perl debugger, the up/down/left/right keys don't work. I get characters like these '^[[A^[[A^[[D^[[C ' when I use those keys. After googling around, I found out I need both Term::ReadLine and Term::ReadKey and I know both are installed by doing

perl -MTerm::ReadLine -e 1
perl -MTerm::ReadKey -e 1
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and no error is returned. I am using bash shell and centOS. What else am I missing? TIA

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Re: Perl debugger up/down key by quester (Vicar) on Feb 15, 2009 at 19:20 UTC
Try installing Term::ReadLine::Perl. It worked for me.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl debugger up/down key by Porculus (Hermit) on Feb 15, 2009 at 19:53 UTC
Or, better yet, Term::ReadLine::Gnu -- it should automatically pick up the same input settings as bash. The core point being that Term::ReadLine itself just provides an interface to the various real readline implementations, of which ::Perl and ::Gnu are probably the most popular.	[reply]
Re: Perl debugger up/down key by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 15, 2009 at 22:26 UTC
Or....... try ptkdb and google for "ptkdb tutorial" for a easy to use gui front end to the perl debugger. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness	[reply]
Re^2: Perl debugger up/down key by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2009 at 14:46 UTC
lol	[reply]