NAME

Term::UI::History - history function

SYNOPSIS

use Term::UI::History qw[history];

history("Some message");

### retrieve the history in printable form
$hist  = Term::UI::History->history_as_string;

### redirect output
local $Term::UI::History::HISTORY_FH = \*STDERR;

DESCRIPTION

This module provides the history function for Term::UI, printing and saving all the UI interaction.

Refer to the Term::UI manpage for details on usage from Term::UI.

This module subclasses Log::Message::Simple. Refer to its manpage for additional functionality available via this package.

FUNCTIONS

history("message string" [,VERBOSE])

Records a message on the stack, and prints it to STDOUT (or actually $HISTORY_FH, see the GLOBAL VARIABLES section below), if the VERBOSE option is true.

The VERBOSE option defaults to true.

GLOBAL VARIABLES

$HISTORY_FH

This is the filehandle all the messages sent to history() are being printed. This defaults to *STDOUT.

See Also

Log::Message::Simple, Term::UI

AUTHOR

This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

This module is copyright (c) 2005 Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.