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Diffstat (limited to 'devel/p5-ReadLine-Perl/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | devel/p5-ReadLine-Perl/pkg-descr | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/devel/p5-ReadLine-Perl/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-ReadLine-Perl/pkg-descr index 051afd80ba23..bc041dc5bd11 100644 --- a/devel/p5-ReadLine-Perl/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-ReadLine-Perl/pkg-descr @@ -1,2 +1,8 @@ -This module allows Term::ReadLine (which ships with Perl 5) to -provide satisfactory editing without using GNU readline. +Perl 5 ships with a module called Term::ReadLine which is an interface +to command line editing and recall. The version that ships with Perl +is only a stub, and offers little functionality. + +This module supplants the Term::ReadLine stubs with real command line +editing and recall facilities, written entirely in Perl. Applications +that use Term::ReadLine do not need to be modified to gain the benefits +of this package; it will happen transparently upon installation. |