Devel::...:Editor(3)

Hey bestie 💖 welcome to Devel::Cover::Base::Editor(3) — brought to you by User Contributed Perl Documentation. She’s the base-class blueprint for editor coverage report backends, and she is lowkey iconic, highkey useful. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

Devel::Cover::Base::Editor — base class for editor coverage report backends. That’s the whole assignment, periodt. 💅

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 1.52 — that’s the version, no cap. 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Bestie, if you’re building your own editor backend, the shape is giving:

package Devel::Cover::Report::MyEditor;
use parent "Devel::Cover::Base::Editor";

my %Templates;
$Templates{myeditor} = <<'EOT';
... template content ...
EOT

sub template_name   { "myeditor" }
sub templates       { \%Templates }
sub output_message ($self, $out) { "MyEditor script written to $out" }

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This is an abstract base class for editor-specific coverage report modules — think Vim and Nvim. It provides the shared report() method, which constructs the template variables and processes the editor-specific template. So the base class handles the common report flow, and the subclass brings the editor flavor. 💖

Subclasses must implement these three, bestie — no skipping:

• template_name — returns the template name, like "vim" or "nvim". She’s literally just the name, okay? 🎀
• templates — returns a hashref of template name to template content. Name goes in, content comes out, iykyk. 🦋
• output_message — returns the success message to display, and it receives the output path as an argument. Cute little victory-lap message. 💅

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Go give these cuties a look: Devel::Cover::Report::Vim and Devel::Cover::Report::Nvim. They’re the editor-specific besties. 🌈

👑 LICENCE 👑

Copyright 2026, Paul Johnson (paul@pjcj.net)

This software is free, bestie. It is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself. Slay.

The latest version of this software should be available from my homepage: https://pjcj.net. Go get the freshest tea. 🍓

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Rendered by perl v5.42.2 on 2026-03-07 — that’s the sign-off from Devel::Cover::Base::Editor(3). Bye bestie, go write a glorious editor report 💖✨