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in thread Annotations for Perl

Do you know how to write IDEA plugin in language other than Java?

Nope. But you don't have to write all the https://github.com/hurricup/Perl5-IDEA/blob/master/src/com/perl5/lang/perl/lexer/Perl.flex stuff in java.

Your plugin could call "perl lexmyperlfile.pl" via Runtime.getRuntime().exec() or some such

Or if that is too slow, open a socket and launch "perl threrealplugin.pl" so they can talk on this socket

Instead of doing all the hard work yourself, let CPAN work for you

somehow or something ... its just ideas :)

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Re^4: Annotations for Perl
by hurricup (Pilgrim) on Jun 03, 2015 at 08:47 UTC

    I've investigated possibility to use PPI. I'm lazy as every proper programmer. But it doesn't worked. IDEA lexer should be able to re-lex from random position and re-lexing code many times on each change. With PPI I'll be limited with it's functionality and, for example, can't implement new features, like annotations :)

    Well, it was possible, but with almost same amount of work and additional restrictions.

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