[csw-users] Perl, CPAN, and CSWpm_termreadlineg

[Larry Siden]

Well I was able to have my cake and eat it too.  I got command-line history
edit to work by installing Term::Readline.  No need for  pm_termradlineg or
rlwrap.

-Larry Siden

“The United States is a nation of laws - poorly written and randomly
enforced."
-Frank Zappa, 1940-1993



On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Larry Siden <lsiden at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> My only recourse was to uninstall this module and forego command history
> edits in cpan.
>
> Of course there is still cpanm (
> http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus-1.5007/bin/cpanm ) 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.
>
> -Larry Siden
>
> “The United States is a nation of laws - poorly written and randomly
> enforced."
> -Frank Zappa, 1940-1993
>
>
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