All these commands are callable via method interface and have names
which conform to standard conventions with the leading C<rl_> stripped.
-The stub package included with the perl distribution allows two
-additional methods: C<tkRunning> and C<ornaments>. The first one
+The stub package included with the perl distribution allows some
+additional methods:
+
+=over 12
+
+=item C<tkRunning>
+
makes Tk event loop run when waiting for user input (i.e., during
-C<readline> method), the second one makes the command line stand out
-by using termcap data. The argument to C<ornaments> should be 0, 1,
-or a string of a form "aa,bb,cc,dd". Four components of this string
-should be names of I<terminal capacities>, first two will be issued to
-make the prompt standout, last two to make the input line standout.
+C<readline> method).
+
+=item C<ornaments>
+
+makes the command line stand out by using termcap data. The argument
+to C<ornaments> should be 0, 1, or a string of a form
+C<"aa,bb,cc,dd">. Four components of this string should be names of
+I<terminal capacities>, first two will be issued to make the prompt
+standout, last two to make the input line standout.
+
+=item C<newTTY>
+
+takes two arguments which are input filehandle and output filehandle.
+Switches to use these filehandles.
+
+=back
+
+One can check whether the currently loaded ReadLine package supports
+these methods by checking for corresponding C<Features>.
=head1 EXPORTS
=head1 ENVIRONMENT
-The variable C<PERL_RL> governs which ReadLine clone is loaded. If the
-value is false, a dummy interface is used. If the value is true, it
-should be tail of the name of the package to use, such as C<Perl> or
-C<Gnu>.
+The environment variable C<PERL_RL> governs which ReadLine clone is
+loaded. If the value is false, a dummy interface is used. If the value
+is true, it should be tail of the name of the package to use, such as
+C<Perl> or C<Gnu>.
+
+As a special case, if the value of this variable is space-separated,
+the tail might be used to disable the ornaments by setting the tail to
+be C<o=0> or C<ornaments=0>. The head should be as described above, say
+
+If the variable is not set, or if the head of space-separated list is
+empty, the best available package is loaded.
-If the variable is not set, the best available package is loaded.
+ export "PERL_RL=Perl o=0" # Use Perl ReadLine without ornaments
+ export "PERL_RL= o=0" # Use best available ReadLine without ornaments
+
+(Note that processing of C<PERL_RL> for ornaments is in the discretion of the
+particular used C<Term::ReadLine::*> package).
=cut
if (-e "/dev/tty") {
$console = "/dev/tty";
- } elsif (-e "con") {
+ } elsif (-e "con" or $^O eq 'MSWin32') {
$console = "con";
} else {
$console = "sys\$command";
}
- if ($^O eq 'amigaos') {
+ if (($^O eq 'amigaos') || ($^O eq 'beos') || ($^O eq 'epoc')) {
$console = undef;
}
elsif ($^O eq 'os2') {
die "method new called with wrong number of arguments"
unless @_==2 or @_==4;
#local (*FIN, *FOUT);
- my ($FIN, $FOUT);
+ my ($FIN, $FOUT, $ret);
if (@_==2) {
($console, $consoleOUT) = findConsole;
$sel = select(FOUT);
$| = 1; # for DB::OUT
select($sel);
- bless [\*FIN, \*FOUT];
+ $ret = bless [\*FIN, \*FOUT];
} else { # Filehandles supplied
$FIN = $_[2]; $FOUT = $_[3];
#OUT->autoflush(1); # Conflicts with debugger?
$sel = select($FOUT);
$| = 1; # for DB::OUT
select($sel);
- bless [$FIN, $FOUT];
+ $ret = bless [$FIN, $FOUT];
+ }
+ if ($ret->Features->{ornaments}
+ and not ($ENV{PERL_RL} and $ENV{PERL_RL} =~ /\bo\w*=0/)) {
+ local $Term::ReadLine::termcap_nowarn = 1;
+ $ret->ornaments(1);
}
+ return $ret;
}
+
+sub newTTY {
+ my ($self, $in, $out) = @_;
+ $self->[0] = $in;
+ $self->[1] = $out;
+ my $sel = select($out);
+ $| = 1; # for DB::OUT
+ select($sel);
+}
+
sub IN { shift->[0] }
sub OUT { shift->[1] }
sub MinLine { undef }
sub Attribs { {} }
-my %features = (tkRunning => 1, ornaments => 1);
+my %features = (tkRunning => 1, ornaments => 1, 'newTTY' => 1);
sub Features { \%features }
package Term::ReadLine; # So late to allow the above code be defined?
-my $which = $ENV{PERL_RL};
+my ($which) = exists $ENV{PERL_RL} ? split /\s+/, $ENV{PERL_RL} : undef;
if ($which) {
if ($which =~ /\bgnu\b/i){
eval "use Term::ReadLine::Gnu;";
} else {
eval "use Term::ReadLine::$which;";
}
-} elsif (defined $which) { # Defined but false
+} elsif (defined $which and $which ne '') { # Defined but false
# Do nothing fancy
} else {
eval "use Term::ReadLine::Gnu; 1" or eval "use Term::ReadLine::Perl; 1";
return $rl_term_set unless @_;
$rl_term_set = shift;
$rl_term_set ||= ',,,';
- $rl_term_set = 'us,ue,md,me' if $rl_term_set == 1;
+ $rl_term_set = 'us,ue,md,me' if $rl_term_set eq '1';
my @ts = split /,/, $rl_term_set, 4;
eval { LoadTermCap };
- warn("Cannot find termcap: $@\n"), return unless defined $terminal;
+ unless (defined $terminal) {
+ warn("Cannot find termcap: $@\n") unless $Term::ReadLine::termcap_nowarn;
+ $rl_term_set = ',,,';
+ return;
+ }
@rl_term_set = map {$_ ? $terminal->Tputs($_,1) || '' : ''} @ts;
return $rl_term_set;
}
my $self = shift;
$self->Tk_loop if $Term::ReadLine::toloop && defined &Tk::DoOneEvent;
my $in = $self->IN;
+ local ($/) = "\n";
return scalar <$in>;
}
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