Installing pm_termradlineg breaks cpan, because it will quickly exit with a message that it has run out of memory. This is on a system with 32G and the histfile was short, so the problem is elsewhere. I think someone else complained about it too. <div>
<br></div><div>My only recourse was to uninstall this module and forego command history edits in cpan.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course there is still cpanm (
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus-1.5007/bin/cpanm">http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus-1.5007/bin/cpanm</a> ) which will allow you to do everything in your favorite Unix shell, and thus take advantage of your system-wide console readline command-history-edit capabilities.<br>
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