Thanks, but i hope you know that there already exist a wild variety of "solutions"

especially perldebug comes with a variety of unknown goodies, like tab completion, introspection and doc lookup and is backwards compatible.

I once spend time adding patching the debugger to Data::Dump of the evaled line and allowing multiline commands ( talk ... sorry slides are offline ATM)

> It only really implements cd and ls. So you can start the shell and type:

yep, OS independence is nice ... though I'm thinking about reusing Brian's powertools

> The eval which evaluates each line has strict and warnings switched off, so you can use things like barewords. Thus the following also works fine and feels slightly more shell-like:

> cd bin

two problems

my idea is to allow a DWIM typing with barewords and path, but to visually translate to correct syntax

i.e. one types

> cd /home/user

but display and history would automatically shows

> cd '/home/user'

(tab completion needs syntax awareness anyway and it'll be a service for people coming from sh)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
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In reply to Re^2: Perl as interactive Shell? by LanX
in thread Perl as interactive Shell? by LanX

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