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+package Devel::REPL::Plugin::DumpHistory;
+
+use Moose::Role;
+use namespace::clean -except => [ 'meta' ];
+
+## Seems to be a sequence issue with requires
+# requires qw{ history };
+
+around 'read' => sub {
+ my $orig = shift;
+ my ($self, @args) = @_;
+
+ my $line = $self->$orig(@args);
+ if (defined $line) {
+ if ($line =~ m/^:dump ?(.*)$/) {
+ my $file = $1;
+ $self->print_history($file);
+ return '';
+ }
+ }
+ return $line;
+};
+
+sub print_history {
+ my ( $self, $file ) = @_;
+
+ if ($file) {
+ open( my $fd, ">>", $file )
+ or do { warn "Couldn't open '$file': $!\n"; return; };
+ print $fd "$_\n" for ( @{ $self->history } );
+ $self->print( sprintf "Dumped %d history lines to '$file'\n",
+ scalar @{ $self->history } );
+ close $fd;
+ } else {
+ $self->print("$_\n") for ( @{ $self->history } );
+ }
+ return 1;
+}
+
+1;
+
+__END__
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+Devel::REPL::Plugin::DumpHistory - Plugin for Devel::REPL to save or print
+the history.
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ #!/usr/bin/perl
+
+ use lib './lib';
+ use Devel::REPL;
+
+ my $repl = Devel::REPL->new;
+ $repl->load_plugin('LexEnv');
+ $repl->load_plugin('History');
+ $repl->load_plugin('DumpHistory');
+ $repl->run;
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+Plugin that adds the C<:dump> and C<:dump file_name> commands to the
+repl which will print the history to STDOUT or append the history to the
+file given.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+C<Devel::REPL>
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+mgrimes, E<lt>mgrimes at cpan dot org<gt>
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
+
+Copyright (C) 2007 by mgrimes
+
+This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.2 or,
+at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
+
+=cut