1 * DESCRIPTION (-*- org -*-)
2 Sepia is a set of features to make Emacs a better tool for Perl
3 development, including:
5 * an interactive prompt (REPL) for evaluating code;
6 * cross-referencing to find and navigate between function and
7 variable definitions and uses;
8 * variable- and function-name completion.
9 * eldoc support to echo function arguments in the minibuffer
10 * functions to simplify POD browsing with Emacs-w3m
12 Please see the Sepia.html or sepia.info for documentation.
14 The basic installation procedure is:
16 1) run "perl Makefile.PL; make; make install"
17 2) optionally, install w3m and Emacs-w3m
18 3) put the elisp files somewhere Emacs will find them.
20 Sepia is developed on the latest version of GNU Emacs, which can be
21 obtained from CVS or as a prebuilt package on some platforms. It can
22 run on other versions of Emacs, but may require additional packages.
23 ** Requirements for GNU Emacs 22
24 *** (optional) emacs-w3m from http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/
25 *** (optional) w3m from http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
26 *** (optional) snippet.el from http://www.kazmier.com/computer/snippet.el
27 ** Additional requirements GNU Emacs 21
29 http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/emacs/lisp/ido.el?root=emacs
30 *** FreeBSD may require the following packages:
31 tree-widget-emacs21-2.0
32 emacs-w3m-emacs21-1.4.4_2
33 mule-ucs-emacs21-0.85.r3
43 ** implement mod_apropos
44 ** improve output for sepia-module-* (modinfo functions)
45 ** (Medium) better intro documentation for debugger
46 ** (Easy) Use module, file, line to refine queries (Perl side)
47 ** (Medium) Get the variable def/use analysis working again.
48 ** (Hard) Use module, file, line to filter results (Emacs side)
49 ** (Medium) Let sepia-next go backward
50 Need to use a vector plus current index instead of a list for
52 ** (Hard) return from anything in the debugger
53 Make it possible to return from intermediate calls in the debugger.
54 Returning from die() is not often useful.
56 This can be done with a clever DB::sub, but that dramatically slows
58 ** (Easy) Fix sepia-indent-or-complete abbrev expansion
59 Currently "else<TAB>" both expands and completes.
60 ** (Medium) fix `sepia-beginning-of-defun' and `sepia-end-of-defun'.
61 While they work for "normal" sub definitions, they fail on
62 definitions that are all on one line, e.g.
68 ** (Medium) Fix string escaping when passing between Perl and Emacs
69 IO::Scalar's README tickles a bug.
70 ** (Medium) Make the debugger's "next" work
71 "next" (as opposed to "step") assumes that the next statement after
72 line $n is line $n+1, which isn't true for loops, blank lines,
73 multi-line statements, etc. Fix this somehow.
74 ** (Medium) Make "finish" more reliable
75 It currently assumes that the last breakable statement in a sub is
76 one line before its end.
78 ** Function definition lines may occasionally all go completely wrong.
79 Rebuilding the Xref database fixes this.
80 ** The cursor may miss by several lines when jumping to a definition.
81 This is hard to fix -- Perl doesn't give exact line numbers for sub
82 defs, so we have to do some minor regex-searching.
83 ** `sepia-var-assigns' doesn't work yet -- don't use it.
84 ** named method calls are (mostly?) detected, but nothing smart is
85 done about packages, so e.g. "new Foo" will result in listings for
86 every instance of "new" in your program.
87 ** the first value printed in the debugger is undef. why?!
89 Sepia would never have been possible without Software Libre, as many
90 key components have been stolen and adapted from other packages:
92 * Sepia::Xref is taken from B::Xref.
93 * sepia-w3m is taken from w3m-perldoc.
94 * COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
95 Copyright (C) 2004-2008 by Sean O'Rourke
97 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
98 it under the same terms as Perl itself, at the time at which this
99 version of Sepia was released.