=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Term::ReadLine;
- my $term = new Term::ReadLine 'Simple Perl calc';
+ my $term = Term::ReadLine->new('Simple Perl calc');
my $prompt = "Enter your arithmetic expression: ";
my $OUT = $term->OUT || \*STDOUT;
while ( defined ($_ = $term->readline($prompt)) ) {
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This package is just a front end to some other packages. At the moment
-this description is written, the only such package is Term-ReadLine,
-available on CPAN near you. The real target of this stub package is to
-set up a common interface to whatever Readline emerges with time.
+This package is just a front end to some other packages. It's a stub to
+set up a common interface to the various ReadLine implementations found on
+CPAN (under the C<Term::ReadLine::*> namespace).
=head1 Minimal set of supported functions
All the supported functions should be called as methods, i.e., either as
- $term = new Term::ReadLine 'name';
+ $term = Term::ReadLine->new('name');
or as
=head1 Additional supported functions
Actually C<Term::ReadLine> can use some other package, that will
-support reacher set of commands.
+support a richer set of commands.
All these commands are callable via method interface and have names
which conform to standard conventions with the leading C<rl_> stripped.
(Note that processing of C<PERL_RL> for ornaments is in the discretion of the
particular used C<Term::ReadLine::*> package).
-=head1 CAVEATS
-
-It seems that using Term::ReadLine from Emacs minibuffer doesn't work
-quite right and one will get an error message like
-
- Cannot open /dev/tty for read at ...
-
-One possible workaround for this is to explicitly open /dev/tty like this
-
- open (FH, "/dev/tty" )
- or eval 'sub Term::ReadLine::findConsole { ("&STDIN", "&STDERR") }';
- die $@ if $@;
- close (FH);
-
-or you can try using the 4-argument form of Term::ReadLine->new().
-
=cut
use strict;
and defined &Tk::DoOneEvent;
#$str = scalar <$in>;
$str = $self->get_line;
- $str =~ s/^\s*\Q$prompt\E// if ($^O eq 'MacOS');
utf8::upgrade($str)
if (${^UNICODE} & PERL_UNICODE_STDIN || defined ${^ENCODING}) &&
utf8::valid($str);
sub findConsole {
my $console;
+ my $consoleOUT;
- if ($^O eq 'MacOS') {
- $console = "Dev:Console";
- } elsif (-e "/dev/tty") {
+ if (-e "/dev/tty") {
$console = "/dev/tty";
} elsif (-e "con" or $^O eq 'MSWin32') {
- $console = "con";
+ $console = 'CONIN$';
+ $consoleOUT = 'CONOUT$';
} else {
$console = "sys\$command";
}
}
}
- my $consoleOUT = $console;
+ $consoleOUT = $console unless defined $consoleOUT;
$console = "&STDIN" unless defined $console;
+ if ($console eq "/dev/tty" && !open(my $fh, "<", $console)) {
+ $console = "&STDIN";
+ undef($consoleOUT);
+ }
if (!defined $consoleOUT) {
- $consoleOUT = defined fileno(STDERR) ? "&STDERR" : "&STDOUT";
+ $consoleOUT = defined fileno(STDERR) && $^O ne 'MSWin32' ? "&STDERR" : "&STDOUT";
}
($console,$consoleOUT);
}
if (@_==2) {
my($console, $consoleOUT) = $_[0]->findConsole;
- open(FIN, "<$console");
- open(FOUT,">$consoleOUT");
+
+ # the Windows CONIN$ needs GENERIC_WRITE mode to allow
+ # a SetConsoleMode() if we end up using Term::ReadKey
+ open FIN, ( $^O eq 'MSWin32' && $console eq 'CONIN$' ) ? "+<$console" :
+ "<$console";
+ open FOUT,">$consoleOUT";
+
#OUT->autoflush(1); # Conflicts with debugger?
my $sel = select(FOUT);
$| = 1; # for DB::OUT
my %features = (tkRunning => 1, ornaments => 1, 'newTTY' => 1);
sub Features { \%features }
+sub get_line {
+ my $self = shift;
+ my $in = $self->IN;
+ local ($/) = "\n";
+ return scalar <$in>;
+}
+
package Term::ReadLine; # So late to allow the above code be defined?
-our $VERSION = '1.01';
+our $VERSION = '1.07';
my ($which) = exists $ENV{PERL_RL} ? split /\s+/, $ENV{PERL_RL} : undef;
if ($which) {
eval "use Term::ReadLine::Gnu;";
} elsif ($which =~ /\bperl\b/i) {
eval "use Term::ReadLine::Perl;";
+ } elsif ($which =~ /^(Stub|TermCap|Tk)$/) {
+ # it is already in memory to avoid false exception as seen in:
+ # PERL_RL=Stub perl -e'$SIG{__DIE__} = sub { print @_ }; require Term::ReadLine'
} else {
eval "use Term::ReadLine::$which;";
}