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Simple Perl

Simple Perl

Zhiyuan Lin

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Simple Perl extension supports perltidy and perlcritic.
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Simple Perl

Features

  • Code snippets for common control structures used in Perl.
  • Code linting via Perl::Critic.
  • Code formatting via Perl::Tidy.

It is a combination of Perl extension by Henrik Sjööh and Perl Toolbox by David Walker.

Installation

Just make sure you have perlcritic and perltidy available in $PATH. Customization Perl::Critic by modify your .perlcriticrc file, configuration in Visual Studio Code is not needed. Same is true for Perl::Tidy, it reads configuration from .perltidyrc.

Extension Settings

Setting Default Description
simple-perl.perltidy perltidy Path to Perl::Tidy executable.
simple-perl.perlcritic perlcritic Path to Perl::Critic executable.

Release Notes

0.0.4

Updated dependencies for the extension. Fix the problem that Perl::Critics does not look for .perlcriticrc in project folder.

0.0.3

Remove hardcoded severity brutal. Update dependencies. Credit: @glauschwuffel issues

0.0.2

Refine README.md.

0.0.1

Initial release of Simple Perl.


Enjoy!

License

MIT

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