A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Things lacking in Eclipse for Perl

Using EPIC
  • You can't fold code on 'if' blocks, or any arbitrary block (only on subs and perldocs).
  • Word wrap causes the line numbers to be wrong (a single wrapped line has more than one line number)
  • Syntax highlighting is not a perfect fit (perhaps this or these might help):
    • POD and heredoc are both marked as 'Comment2' and so can't be different colours
    • Even though there is a 'Markup' entry, it doesn't seem to be used for POD
    • The colour of dollar signs can't be changed (it's the same as the variable name in vim)
    • Neither variables nor special characters change colour within interpolated strings (as in vim)