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Notepad++ Perl Function List with "Classes"by VinsWorldcom (Prior) |
on Aug 24, 2015 at 16:50 UTC ( [id://1139708]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Windows Monks, As follow-on to my previous meditation regarding Notepad++ Integrated Perl Debugging, I've been doing other things with Notepad++ to make it more friendly when I write Perl (of which I've been doing more than usual lately). One thing I did was to get Python debugging working the same way as with Perl. In case you're interested, see here: http://vinsworldcom.blogspot.com/2015/08/notepad-dbgp-and-python.html. This got me thinking as I looked in the "Function List" window at Python code:
Why does the "Function List" window show Python classes, but not Perl by default? Of course by Perl class, I mean 'package <name>'. All I would see was a list of subs. Take the following example program:
The Notepad++ Function List is:
But there are clearly "classes" (read: packages) under which I'd like my subs grouped. Thankfully, Notepad++ allows customization of a file in the Notepad++ top level directory called 'functionList.xml' (documentation: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/function-list.html). A quick web search turned up a partial solution and with some more tweaking I finally got it to display:
If there are no "packages", then the original display of just filename with the subs is what is displayed. I even tweaked it a bit to ignore stuff after __END__, so any "sub name" that appears in POD won't be mistakenly added to the Function List. I've tested it by viewing a few of my scripts, some modules and a few "custom" codes to demonstrate different use cases. So far, so good. The solution; save a copy of your existing 'functionList.xml' to something like 'functionList.xml.ORIG' (just in case you want to revert back), open the existing 'functionList.xml' file, find the Perl parser lines:
and replace the whole lot with:
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