explorer feature for a perl editor?

s_p_a_m_mob · Jan 16, 2005

Hi there,

I am looking for a perl editor which has an explorer feature (like a
document with style in OpenOffice) to rearrange a perl package. Such an
editor should parse the source text and show the perl structure (sub)
and pod structure (=head1, =head2, etc.) and enable the user to
rearrange graphically the structure.

If such an editor doesn't exist (apart from VisiPerl, not tested) I am
thinking of using OpenOffice.

Best regards,

Marc-Olivier BERNARD

Hendrik Maryns · Jan 16, 2005

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Hi there,

I am looking for a perl editor which has an explorer feature (like a
document with style in OpenOffice) to rearrange a perl package. Such an
editor should parse the source text and show the perl structure (sub)
and pod structure (=head1, =head2, etc.) and enable the user to
rearrange graphically the structure.

If such an editor doesn't exist (apart from VisiPerl, not tested) I am
thinking of using OpenOffice.

I'm not sure wether I understand exactly what you want, but eclipse with
the EPIC extension for Perl, does something that sounds like this... It
does syntax-highlighting and checking too.
It is rather heavy and because of that tends to be a bit slow, though.

Hendrik

s_p_a_m_mob · Jan 17, 2005

The aim is to rearrange graphically a perl module, to move down a
method, move up some pod, etc.

My solution is to add structure to the perl/pod code with html and use
the navigator feature of OpenOffice to graphically move the blocks.

1. add structure to perl/pod code, with following script (perl2html.pl)

---

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use IO::File;
use HTML::Entities;

$ARGV[0] or die qq(Usage: $0 Module.pm > /tmp/Module.html
Then:
~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/soffice /tmp/Module.html &
rearrange with OO explorer, save as txt file /tmp/Module.txt
perl -pi -e "s/# space//gc" /tmp/Module.txt
cp /tmp/Module.txt /tmp/Module,2.pm
);

my $fh = IO::File->new();
$fh->open("< ".$ARGV[0]) or die "$!";

my $content="";
my $line;

while ($line = <$fh>){

# escape entities
$line = encode_entities($line);

my $tmp;
my $elemName;

if($line =~ m/^(=head(\d) \w.*?)$/ or $line =~ m/^(=cut.*?)$/ or
$line =~ m/^(sub .*?)$/){

$tmp = $1;
$elemName = $2 ? "h$2" : "h1";
# suppress \n
$tmp =~ s/\n$//;

# add structure for =head1, =head2, etc
$line = qq(<$elemName>$tmp</$elemName>);

}elsif($line =~ m/^[\t ]*\n$/){
# avoid n blank lines -> n-1 blank lines with OO html->txt
$line = "# space<br>";
}else{
$line =~ s/\n$//;
$line ="<pre>".$line."</pre>";
}

# add \n
$content = $content.$line."\n";
}

# add html and
body markup
$content = qq(<html><body>).$content.qq(</body></html>);
print $content;

---

Output to Module.html

2. Open the resulting html file with OpenOffice, and its navigator
feature

(Edit > Navigator)

3. Save as txt file (Module.txt)

4. perl -pi -e "s/# space//gc" Module.txt

It's done.

Marc-Olivier BERNARD

Hendrik said:
I'm not sure wether I understand exactly what you want, but eclipse with
the EPIC extension for Perl, does something that sounds like this... It
does syntax-highlighting and checking too.

That tool seems pretty complicate...

Michele Dondi · Jan 18, 2005

The aim is to rearrange graphically a perl module, to move down a
method, move up some pod, etc.

My solution is to add structure to the perl/pod code with html and use
the navigator feature of OpenOffice to graphically move the blocks.

Ouch! Why not using a Real Editor(TM) instead? It is enough that it
supports folding...

Michele

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explorer feature for a perl editor?

s_p_a_m_mob

Hendrik Maryns

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Michele Dondi

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