Perl monking (was Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, May 14, 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:09:38PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> One of the things I really like in perl, that's not in python, is
>> the concept of alternative methods of quoting which can make
>> things like this much cleaner.
>> 
>> Single quotes, 'stuf' can be replaced with q(stuf).
>> 
>> Double auotes, "stuf$variable" by qq(stuf$variable).
>> 
>> Backticks `somecommand` by qx(somecomand).
>> 
>> Regular expressions /expression/ by qr(expression).
>> 
>> This is particularly useful when the stuff you want quoted
>> contains the character you need to use for the quotes.
>
>I'd forgotten about these.  Happens they weren't actually the problem,
>of course, but...
>
>> Furthermore, the quoted text can be enclosed in parenthesis,
>> braces, etc., so that vi(m)'s ``%'' key can be used to find the
>> matching delimiter (this is very high on my list of priorities).
>
>Indeed.  Newer Vim's seem to auto-highlight the matches as your cursor
>across them, as well; I think this was whatever ships on SuSE 10.2.

The vim option to have the cursor momentarily jump to the matching
delimiter is ``showmatch'', and can be turned off in your $HOME/.vimrc
file.  Personally I like it on.

You can turn off that obnoxious coloration with ``:syntax off'' or
something similar in the $HOME/.vimrc file.  Fairlite has a color setting
that he likes as well.

Personally I only turn the syntax highlighting on when I'm chasing a syntax
error that's probably caused by failing to close a quote somewhere because
I find the highlighting colors unreadable.

Bill
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