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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Tuesday November 25, 2003
12:16 PM

Perl Cross-Reference Tool

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One of my coworkers is looking for a Perl cross-reference tool that has syntax highlighting, allows you to click through to various modules, given a "sub foo", will attempt to list every module that has a "sub foo", etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Running on Linux would be best, but Mac OSX will do.


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  • brian d foy posted earlier this week that he was workin' on a class browser, but that's all I know.
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    xoa

  • You might be able to do what you want with emacs or vim.

    For emacs change to your top level directory and run etags `find * -name '*.p[lm]'`. Then, inside emacs, you press M-. to follow a symbol to it's definition and M-* to go back to where you were.

    Vim is pretty similiar. You run ctags `find * -name '*.p[lm]'` and then you can do vim -t foo to jump straight to where foo is defined. Inside vim, you can either do :ta foo or control-left-click on a word to jump to its definition. To go back, in all ca

    • Sorry, I forgot to mention that you'll need exuberant ctags installed to get it working with perl most likely. Try doing ctags --help | grep perl or ctags --help | grep perl to see if it will work.

      -Dom

  • CPANXR [cpan.org] looks like it could be right up your alley.
    • And here http://cpanxr.surfar.nu/cpanxr/classes to see it working.

      Best regards,
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    • Re:CPANXR (Score:2, Insightful)

      by nkuitse (193)

      =head1 NAME

      cpanxr - CPANXR indexer

      [...]

      =head1 OPTIONS

      [...]

      =item B<-man>

      Prints the manual page and exists.

      Cool. Zen and the art of CPAN indexing.
      :-)
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