A while back I forked Term::ReadLine::Perl making Term::ReadLine::Perl5 because of the former maintainer's lack of responsiveness regrading my patch to add GNU Readline history and general lack of responsiveness overall.

Term::ReadLine::Perl purports to be a "pure Perl" version of GNU ReadLine. It can use, but does not require, Term::ReadKey. With this issue it seems that more hacking is needed when Term::ReadKey is not available.

Right now Term::ReadKey is recomme…