On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Vic Sage wrote: > I'd like to hear some recommendations from this list for customizations to > emacs for coding Perl. > > One seemingly respected site, http://emacswiki.org/emacs/PerlLanguage, has a > lot of links but unfortunately some are pretty dated. For example, the Perl > Develop Environment, http://search.cpan.org/dist/Emacs-PDE/, last updated in > 2008, wouldn't install because my version of Perl (5.16.1) was "too far out > of date." So of course the question is, how up-to-date is emacswiki.org > (http://emacswiki.org)? > > As I say, I'm running Perl 5.16.1, and emacs 24.something. I do have > cperl-mode.el, but there are also a lot of goodies out there like > variable-name completion and templates that look very useful. I mostly don't > want to be installing and troubleshooting stuff that hasn't been updated in > five years and/or isn't "generally regarded" to be top quality. > > Thanks for any pointers or even advice about what to avoid :) > Well, there's the 'Tweakers Anonymous' talk I gave at YAPC…
* slides: http://www.slideshare.net/genehackdotorg/tweakers-anonymous-13313552 * video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_lY-zlzik There's also my Emacs config: https://github.com/genehack/emacs (the Perl stuff is mostly in etc/perl.el) j.
