It's actually reasonably well commented now.  You only need about a week
to be able to learn enough Perl and  make substantial changes to the
plugin.  I've done just this in the last week, and it's been fun.  ;-) 
To be fair though, I know other languages and, crucially I believe,
bourne shell, sed and awk.  From that background, Perl really makes a
lot of sense.  A copy of Learning Perl and Programming Perl (just the
latter if it's a choice between the two) would also help a lot. 

Max

oreillymj Wrote: 
> No problem. I absolutely agree that what I'm looking for is probably an
> obscure use case.
> 
> I did have a look the perl code to see if it was feasible to make the
> changes myself rahter than hassling other, but perl is such a difficult
> language in terms of readability. Unless your programming in it daily,
> it can be quite hard to figure out what's going on.
> I think I'd need every line of the plugin documented to figure out how
> to make my change.


-- 
max.spicer

The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible
teeth
and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws
but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye
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