CodeText::Perl(3pm)

💖 CodeText::Perl — a.k.a. Tk::CodeText::Perl (3pm) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for Tk::CodeText::Perl, a lil plugin that does Perl syntax highlighting. it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your friendly neighbourhood man setup, and it is genuinely the moment. 🌈

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✨ NAME ✨

Tk::CodeText::Perl — a Plugin for Perl syntax highlighting 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Tk::CodeText::Perl inherits Syntax::Highlight::Perl;

heads up bestie: for its limitations see also there (i.e. go read the Syntax::Highlight::Perl page, iykyk). this module provides extra methods to provide syntax highlighting for the Perl programming language. 🎀

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👑 METHODS 👑

• highlight($string); — returns a list of string snippets and tags that can be inserted in a Tk::Text like widget instantly. no waiting, no loading spinner, we go straight in. ✨
• rules($txtwidget,\@list) — sets and returns a reference to a list of tagnames and options. by default it is set to:

[
   ['Comment_Normal', -foreground => 'lightblue'],
   ['Comment_Pod', -foreground => 'lightblue'],
   ['Directive', -foreground => 'black'],
   ['Label', -foreground => 'black'],
   ['Quote', -foreground => 'red'],
   ['String', -foreground => 'red'],
   ['Variable_Scalar', -foreground => 'blue'],
   ['Variable_Array', -foreground => 'blue'],
   ['Variable_Hash', -foreground => 'blue'],
   ['Subroutine', -foreground => 'orange'],
   ['Character', -foreground => 'magenta'],
   ['Keyword', -foreground => 'darkgreen'],
   ['Builtin_Operator', -foreground => 'darkgreen'],
   ['Operator', -foreground => 'brown'],
   ['Number', -foreground => 'darkblue'],
]

• rulesConfigure($txtwidget,\@list) — Used internally. Don't call it yourself. 🙈 seriously bestie, it's not for us, it's giving "staff only" door energy. 💀
• rulesDelete($txtwidget,\@list) — yeah, also in the rules department, right there with its sibling above. 🧚
• stateCompare(\@state); — Compares @state to the current state of the formatter. returns true when equal. vibe check but for states. 🌸
• stateGet — Returns a list of the current state of the formatter. Called by the highlighting routines in Tk::CodeText.
• stateSet(@list) — Sets the state of the formatter. Called by the highlighting routines in Tk::CodeText. ⌨️

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Hans Jeuken (haje@toneel.demon.nl) — absolute icon, thank you for your service. 🎀

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💀 BUGS 💀

Propably plenty 😭 (yes, that's exactly how it's written, we keep it verbatim, no cap).

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and that's the whole page, bestie! now go forth and highlight some Perl. 💖✨🌸

cute lil sign-off: this page ships as part of perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-05-04, and it's the CodeText::Perl(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection. 🦋 mwah, go read it again, it's short and it ate. 👑