use Perl

• Happy Emacs and Perl user (Score:2)

  by merlyn (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.

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  • Randal L. Schwartz
  • Stonehenge
• EPL's fine (Score:1)

  by educated_foo (3106)

  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 (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  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.

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  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;
• Ah but... (Score:1)

  by zatoichi (4897)

  XEmacs plays nicer with Perl. Plus (being on Windows) it is a better "Windows" application.
  • Re:Ah but... (Score:1)

    by jordan (120)

    In what way is XEmacs on Windows that emacs is not [gnu.org]?
    

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