OT: perl emacs 'strict' and 'warnings'?

water again. I am leaning towards returning to Emacs... does anyone know here if there's a mode that does syntax checking (eg 'strict' and 'warnings' in real time)? I know about cperl for syntax colorization, but, again relfecting back on optiperl, it squawks in real time when I type $fooo when I should have typed <code $foo</code>, or if I type gep rather than grep. Seeing the error at that instant and fixing it right then is a big time saver, vs. seeing the error when syntax checking or running the script. Does anyone know if emacs can do something like this?

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Re: OT: perl emacs 'strict' and 'warnings'? by InfiniteLoop (Hermit) on Oct 11, 2004 at 14:29 UTC
I dont know of such features, but you can check for perl syntax and pod on an event such as after saving (after-save-hook). I have just added such a elisp function here: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=398159	[reply]
Re: OT: perl emacs 'strict' and 'warnings'? by vjo (Novice) on Oct 11, 2004 at 14:53 UTC
> does anyone know here if there's a mode that does syntax > checking (eg 'strict' and 'warnings' in real time)? Yes. It exists and is called flymake. http://flymake.sourceforge.net/	[reply]
Re: OT: perl emacs 'strict' and 'warnings'? by patrick.j (Acolyte) on Oct 30, 2010 at 17:41 UTC
yes: flymake-mode (In the docs there is an example for perl checking if it isn't set up already)	[reply]