perlnow.el is a package that fills in some of the existing gaps in emacs support for developers working in the perl language:
http://obsidianrook.com/perlnow/
Features of perlnow.el:
- makes heavy use of the template.el package (TemplatesMode) to speed up the initial creation of perl code of various sorts (scripts, proceedural modules, object-oriented modules and automated tests).
- makes it eaisier to use the compile/next-error features of emacs by supplying default run commands that are more likely to be suitable for perl code.
- re-uses these buffer-local run commands (which are also user-modifiable on the fly) when running the perl debugger.
- encourages the creation of test files by automatically applying some naming and location conventions.
Limitations:
perlnow.el was developed under Gnu Emacs 21. There have been reports of difficulties with using it under xemacs.
Related Pages
PerlLanguage – suggestions for perl programmers using emacs.
User experiences with perlnow.el
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