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I use several homemade scripts frequently that revolve around taking input from user and writing to specified files. One thing I really miss while giving the input is some kind of editor like environment, be it vi or emacs, either would be great. I really miss completion too, as provide by bash. How big of a chore would it be to include code into the script that creates some kind of editor like environment and allows bash style completion? I'm a very low level perl coder.. and will need pointers to some clues about how to get this done, and incorporated into my scripts. In shell scripting, at least with bash, taking input from user is done with `read line' but you can say 'read -e line' and the input is suddenly done with bash completion.. and I think a few other niceties. Is there something similar in perl?Thread Next