Emacs, vi and Perl

ambs on 2004-07-12T21:01:28

I am an emacs user and a vi survivor (I know emacs would be a nice operative system if it had a nice editor). I know that there is a "easy" way to integrate vi and Perl. Meanwhile, emacs is being not so easy. The Perlmacs is from 2000 and Emacs::EPL from 2001.

This means perl hackers do not use emacs, or that emacs is good enough not needing perl integration?

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Happy Emacs and Perl user

merlyn on 2004-07-12T23:02:47

But I don't have any need for my Emacs to speak Perl, or my Perl to speak Emacs. So no, I've not been all that interested in how it no longer plays tightly together.

EPL's fine

educated_foo on 2004-07-13T05:00:29

Emacs::EPL actually works just fine. I've even tried to develop an interactive Perl mode for Emacs (see "Sepia" on CPAN) -- there may be some infelicities, but I'd be happy to try to fix them. However, I found that I don't tend to develop Perl interactively, though I do so with both Lisp and Octave.

emacs and cperl-mode is all I need

TeeJay on 2004-07-13T09:11:56

I have managed fine for about 7 years just using emacs and the command line.

The only integration I have ever used in emacs is the Version control so that I have lots of revisions of all the code I am working on, its also handy when using CVS.

I usually run perldoc, perl -e '$short_perl_code' and CPAN from the command line. perl -cw is something I also prefer to do from the command line, usually outputting stderr to a log.

Ah but...

zatoichi on 2004-07-13T10:33:05

XEmacs plays nicer with Perl. Plus (being on Windows) it is a better "Windows" application.

Re:Ah but...

jordan on 2004-07-15T15:23:20

In what way is XEmacs on Windows that emacs is not?

Cygwin also has emacs and that's what I use to have all the goodness of bash and other tools handy.