Atom Perl 6 Editor Tools

Deprecation Notice:

This plugin is going to be deprecated in favor of ide-perl6. All the useful features that are found here are going to be moved there slowly. Syntax checker linter is already there.

This atom plugin provides a collection of useful Perl 6 editor tools that are shown below:

Syntax Check Linter

This provides a linter that syntax checks Perl 6 code and provides error messages. Please note that this will run BEGIN and CHECK blocks.

Build Support

This provides a builder that provides the following tasks (More build tasks will added in the future):

• Perl 6 test: This will run prove -v -e "perl6 -Ilib" in your current Perl 6 project and provide the build log

Context sensitive help

This provides a hyperclick for context sensitive help.

POD Preview (Shortcut: Alt+Ctrl+O)

This allows you to preview Perl 6 POD while typing your POD documentation in near real-time. Please remember to install Pod::To::HTML via the following command for the POD Preview pane to work:

  $ zef install Pod::To::HTML

Snippets

A collection of useful snippets are now available for Perl 6 files. You can find a complete list of the snippets here.

• Please use Alt+Shift+S to view a scrollable list of them.
• Type the name of the snippet and then press Tab. For example, by typing script followed by Tab, a hello world script is inserted. Please read Using Atom: Snippets for more information.

File Icons

Perl 6 file icons are now provided by file-icons and is installed automatically.

Author

Ahmad M. Zawawi, azawawi on #perl6, https://github.com/azawawi/

License

MIT License