Source: libterm-readline-gnu-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Niko Tyni , gregor herrmann , Salvatore Bonaccorso Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), libreadline-dev, perl Standards-Version: 4.3.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libterm-readline-gnu-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libterm-readline-gnu-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Term-ReadLine-Gnu Package: libterm-readline-gnu-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Perl extension for the GNU ReadLine/History Library Term::ReadLine::Gnu is a Perl interface to the GNU ReadLine Library, allowing developers to provide features including input line editing, input history management, word completion and more. . Through this module, you have access to almost all variables and functions as documented in the GNU ReadLine/History Library. This means you can write your custom editing function, custom completion function, and so on, with Perl. You may find it useful for prototyping before programming with C.