Perl Debugger Command-Line

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

When using the Perl debugger and I try to hit arrows up/down, it gives the following characters.

arrow up   ==> ^[[A
arrow down ==> ^[[B
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Can this be changed so that arrow up/down shows the histories of what you typed?

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Re: Perl Debugger Command-Line by repellent (Priest) on May 07, 2010 at 01:14 UTC
Install Term::ReadLine::Perl from CPAN. See Term::ReadLine::Gnu also. If you have `Term::ReadLine::Perl`, you can try Term::ReadLine::Perl::Bind.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl Debugger Command-Line by graff (Chancellor) on May 07, 2010 at 02:26 UTC
Install Term::ReadLine::Perl from CPAN. Whoa! Thanks! All this time, I've been wondering why "perl -d ..." on my mac hasn't been doing the right thing when I try to arrow up to previous debugger commands... This was the solution to my problem! Dude, you have improved the quality of my life. (So how come Term::Readline::Perl is part of the core distro on macosx????)	[reply]
Re: Perl Debugger Command-Line by Khen1950fx (Canon) on May 07, 2010 at 02:07 UTC
Here's brief post that sums it up. You'll probably need Term::ReadKey too. Or run this, and you're good to go. `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->install( "Term::ReadKey", "Term::ReadLine::Gnu", "Term::ReadLine::Perl");` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl Debugger Command-Line by Dumu (Monk) on Sep 05, 2016 at 16:09 UTC
I'm currently using Perl 5.24 on top of Ubuntu. I had to install: Term::ReadKey Term::ReadLine Term::ReadLine::Gnu Term::ReadLine::Perl5	[reply]
Re: Perl Debugger Command-Line by bichonfrise74 (Vicar) on May 07, 2010 at 03:03 UTC
Thank you too!!	[reply]