One of the thing that's great about so-called agile languages (like Perl) is that they lend themselves to interactive shells. If you've played with Ruby on Rails you have probably come across the excellent irb. Well psh is one (of many) such shell for Perl.

Trouble is it insists on extensively using gnu readline (if installed). This is great for regular terminals but is a royal pain if you try to use it within a shell-mode buffer in emacs.

To get rid of all those escape characters without hacking the code, add the following to your .pshrc:

require "$ENV{HOME}/.pshrc_emacs" if $ENV{EMACS} eq 't';

{
    package Psh::OS;
    sub setup_readline_handler {}
    sub remove_readline_handler {}
    sub reinstall_resize_handler {}
    sub check_terminal_size {}
}

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"Mel Kaye" is always near the top of the list somewhere, proving the IT world's unending search for the folklore that is the closest thing we have to real history. I used to be on the first page of Google results for that query. Now I'm way down the ranks.

Now I have a new entry into the list - and it has debued at #2!

The new entry is ...(drumroll please).... MAGIC MUG CAKE!

You can read this highly sought after blog entry, but also take a look at the Google search. The only other solid reference to "magic mug cake" on the net is from someone in Melbourne (must be an AU only product) and they also have a sheep on their mug. Amazing coincidence?