> I do like the feature-rich IO::Prompter module; the menus are perhaps my favourite bit.

well.. I dont know how to be kind about this, but I have a radical different opinion.

Given anyone is free to choose their tool I find very irritating to spot a nice perl module ( IO::Prompter ) with this statement in the docomentation:

Several features of this module are known to have problems under Windo
+ws. If using that platform, you may have more success (and less distr
+ess) by trying IO::Prompt::Tiny, IO::Prompt::Simple, or IO::Prompt::H
+ooked first.
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Well.. it is kind to inform me, but consider this situation:

Hey my friend! For sure I can lend you my wonderful supercar: it is very safe and fast but if you are not tall exactly 183 cm and 90 Kg the car probably will only go 40Km/h and the car can skid when cornering if your feet are not exactly 10 sized.

:( thanks, better I'll take the bus..

My busses are:

use Term::Readline; 
$ENV{PERL_RL} = "Perl";

my $term = Term::ReadLine->new('sweet_ol_bus');

$term->Attribs->{completion_function} = sub {
                      my $txt = shift;
                      return  grep { /^$txt/i } sort keys %$my_list_of
+_autocompletion;
                  };

my $in;
while ( defined ( $in = $term->readline( 'my_prompt>' ) ) ) {
        chomp ($in);
        ...
}
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More kind for IO::Prompter should be to have 00_OStest.t stating BAIL_OUT() if $^O eq "MSWin32" and instead I see all tests passing with only, ironically being an interactive module, t/styles.t ....................... skipped: Skipping interactive tests under Windows while all other interactive tests are ok:

All tests successful.
Files=38, Tests=163, 53 wallclock secs ( 0.09 usr +  0.09 sys =  0.19 
+CPU)
Result: PASS
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So please, consider it carefully before adopting a module if you plan to share your code widely. This is not criticism about you nor your code kcott, absolutely.

You will see me at the next Perl conference selling t-shirts with: Strawberry setups matter and Say NO to OSsism

</rant> :)

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