Re: [perl #24491] Term::Readline problem with newline in $prompt and T::R::Perl

"joost@carnique.nl (via RT)" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> writes:

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> This is a bug report for perl from joost@carnique.nl,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.2.
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> Term::ReadLine problem.
> 
> Using the example code in the SYNOPSIS on
> http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.2/lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
> works fine. However, adding a "\n" in $prompt makes the output
> as follows:
> 
> Enter your arithmetic 
> Enter your arithmetic 
> expression:  
> 
> where the first line is underlined up to the "\n", and the two lines
> below are completely underlined.
> This happens with Term::ReadLine::Perl.
> With T::R::Gnu, this problem does not occur.
> 
> perl -MTerm::ReadLine -e'print join $/, values %INC;'
> /usr/share/perl/5.8.2/Carp.pm
> /usr/share/perl/5.8.2/Term/ReadLine.pm
> /usr/share/perl/5.8.2/Exporter.pm
> /usr/share/perl/5.8.2/strict.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm
> 

From looking at the Term/ReadLine/readline.pm code, it seems that "\n"
is not supported. Anyway, this bugreport should go to the T::R::P
maintainers.

Regards,
        Slaven

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• [perl #24491] Term::Readline problem with newline in $prompt and T::R::Perl by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #24491] Term::Readline problem with newline in $prompt and T::R::Perl by Slaven Rezic