Comment by raiph

> In the Perl 6 repl, I can't use my up/down arrows, or ^p/^n to get at previous lines I typed, nor ^a/^e and alt-B/alt-F to navigate on the line.

Try:

    panda install Linenoise

If that doesn't work, post the response to `perl6 -v` and `perl6 -e '$*DISTRO.perl.say'`.