spacemacs/layers/+lang/perl6

perl6 layer

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
  • Layer
  • Jump to definition
• Key bindings

Description

This layer provides an environment for the Perl 6 Programming Language.

Features:

• Jump to definition & Code completion via ctags-universal
• Syntax checking via flycheck-perl6 and perl6 -c
• Syntax highlighting & Syntax indentation via perl6-mode
• META6.json highlighting via json-mode

• Provides Evil text objects for:

  • double-angle-brackets
  • corner-brackets
  • single-quotation-marks
  • double-quotation-marks

Install

Layer

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add perl6 to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Jump to definition

Jump to definition requires ctags-universal to be be installed. Then you can generate the TAGS file for your projects like this:

  ctags -e -Ra lib t/
  ctags -e -Ra --language-force=Perl6 bin/ $YOUR_PERL_PATH/share/perl6/site/sources/

Key bindings

Key binding	Description
SPC m g g	Jump to definition (requires ctags-universal