use Perl

• For the vi content... (Score:2)

  by rjray (1649)

  I nominate Ovid for updating the vi (vim) stuff. His journal entries on integrating Devel::Cover/Devel::CoverX::Covered with vim macros has me practically considering switching from emacs back to vi after nearly 23 years.

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  --rjray
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jplindstrom (594)

    Um... hello [cpan.org]? :)
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by jplindstrom (594)

      Link to the correct anchor [cpan.org] in the page.
• Better to update the original cperl-mode... (Score:2)

  by jand (379)

  and not the version already mangled by RMS. Ilya is still releasing updates to the original cperl-mode (and Perl 5.10 comes with the latest version at the time of its release). I would prefer to see the 5.10 patches applied to that version instead of promoting the RMS fork.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jrockway (7171)

    Hi. We try to keep sync'd with IlyaZ, but his version control isn't public and I can't read his mind. Better to have something than nothing, even if you contend that the original emacs is a fork of the original emacs :P
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jand (379)

      Yes, something is better than nothing, and I do appreciate that you put in the effort to get Perl 5.10 support into cperl-mode. I understand that Ilya is not always easy to work with, so I don't know if he rejected applying any patches you may have made against his version.

      As to why I consider the RMS version a fork, just try to get the change history comments from Ilya's version into the RMS version and see what happens...

      However, I just did a diff between the 5.23 versions from Ilya and RMS and they
• rgs seems to have updated things (Score:1)

  by jrockway (7171)

  Here's his blog entry: http://consttype.blogspot.com/2008/01/vim-and-perl-510.html [blogspot.com]