How to navigate perl code with cscope in emacs ?

rajachan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been a VIM user for 4 years, but have been trying to learn emacs. My project is fully written in perl and I am trying to get the cscope working in emacs for perl.

I don't have any problem navigating perl from VIM.“cs add cscope.out” from vim command mode does the job for me. In emacs though, with the same cscope database (which has both C++ and perl symbols) emacs perfectly recognizes my C symbols (M-x M-x cscope-find-global-definition). But for perl symbols, I am getting the below error.

Error: Finding global definition: somePerlFunction Search complete. Search time = 0.92 seconds. No matches were found.

Does emacs supports perl code navigation? If not, isn't it a major drawback? Can someone please help?

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Re: How to navigate perl code with cscope in emacs ? by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jun 22, 2011 at 12:58 UTC
Searching the Monastery for "cscope perl" (see the search box in the upper left corner of your screen) would have dug up this thread: cscope & perl, giving the magic incantations necessary to generate the perl database in this node: Re: cscope & perl. Did that work for you? --MidLifeXis	[reply]