Perl debugger no longer lets me arrow up and down

[JS Bangs]

This may very well be an OS problem, in which case I'll humbly accept your
suggestions to go elsewhere with it.

In the meantime: the perl debugger no longer lets me use the up and down
arrow keys to page through my history. Instead, I get lovely bits of ^[[A
and ^[[B. This started after I upgraded from v5.6.1 to v5.8 (possibly
upgrading/messing up the debugger?). Is there a config file somewhere I
can fix?

History arrows still work as expected in bash and mysql, making me think
that it's *not* an OS problem. TIA--

Jesse S. Bangs (e-mail address removed)

 

[JS Bangs]

Colin Campbell sikyal:

In the meantime: the perl debugger no longer lets me use the up and down
arrow keys to page through my history. Instead, I get lovely bits of ^[[A
and ^[[B. This started after I upgraded from v5.6.1 to v5.8 (possibly
upgrading/messing up the debugger?). Is there a config file somewhere I
can fix?

I think you might be missing the Term::Readline module off CPAN.

Isn't that part of the standard Perl library?

In any case, I went to install it, and CPAN said it wanted an upgrade. So
I did that, which automatically upgraded/reinstalled Term::ReadLine, which
fixed the problem.

Thanks!



Jesse S. Bangs (e-mail address removed)