Re: Emacs like line editing during perl input.

[Bijan Soleymani]

Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> writes:
> 
> > But seriously just download the source to a program that uses
> > Term:readline and figure it out. (vicq is a simple icq program written in 
> > perl that uses that library.)
> 
> emacs vICQ.pm
> M-x occur [Rr]ead[Ll]ine <RET>
>        <no matches>
> 
> M-x occur [Tt]erm <RET>
>        <no matches>
I've installed the Debian package I'm looking at the file /usr/bin/vicq
and line 19 is:
use Term::Readline;
and m-x occur gives 23 matches.

Bijan
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Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> writes:

>> emacs vICQ.pm
>> M-x occur [Rr]ead[Ll]ine <RET>
>>        <no matches>
>> 
>> M-x occur [Tt]erm <RET>
>>        <no matches>
> I've installed the Debian package I'm looking at the file /usr/bin/vicq
> and line 19 is:
> use Term::Readline;
> and m-x occur gives 23 matches.

Oh.. thanks.  I was looking in the *.pm file.
Now I see them but still no closer to understanding how to use it to
make and input line editable.

Apparently this is just going to remain out of my grasp for some time
to come.