Re: Emacs like line editing during perl input.

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net> writes:
> 
> > in gnu.emacs.help i read:
> >>those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net>
> >>writes:
> >
> >>Sorry Those, but Nope ... you're not redirecting me.  I posted here
> >>for a purpose.  I wanted the input of emacs perl sharpies.
> >
> > too bad, they'd answer your entirely perl question.  (childish-mode: i know
> > how to do what you want to do, in fact it's plain as can be for anyone that
> > is willing to invest the effort in actually learning a little perl, but i'm
> > not going to tell you because you decided to ignore my hint, and besides
> > it's off-topic for this group.)
> 
> You're a hard man Those.. But suprise, I've already posted about this
> thrice on the perl beginner list.  I get no farther than suggestions
> to use Term::ReadLine.
> 
> If it were really plain to see, I'd see it.  I've written semi
> extensive perl scripts and know rudimentary perl.
> 
> I want emacs style editing so while it may be a bit of a stretch, it
> is emacs related.
I'm sorry but instructions on how to use term::readline have very
little to do with emacs. If you want emacs like editing you could
always rewrite your user interface in emacs lisp :) Then you would
get EMACS EDITING.

But seriously just download the source to a program that uses
Term:readline and figure it out. (vicq is a simple icq program written in 
perl that uses that library.)

Bijan