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# Term::UI::History

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# Term::UI::History

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- FUNCTIONS
  - history("message string" [,VERBOSE])
- GLOBAL VARIABLES
- See Also
- AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT

# 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.

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- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- FUNCTIONS
  - history("message string" [,VERBOSE])
- GLOBAL VARIABLES
- See Also
- AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT