Re: pod vs editor preferences

[John McNamara]

At 20:34 01/04/2005 -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:

> I would like pod to respect my editors defaults,


Ultimately, it would be easier to get your editor to respect pod's
defaults.

There is a pod-mode for Emacs that you may  find useful:

http://search.cpan.org/~schwigon/pod-mode/



> So, is this counter to the spirit of perlpodspec ?
> Or is this kind of scoping precisely what =for is for,


According to perlpod, "[=for] will let you have regions of
text/code/data that are not generally interpreted as normal Pod
text".

However, it would appear that you wish to have regions of almost Pod
interpreted as Pod. It think that this *is* counter to the spirit of
Pod.

In order not to be disappointed it is usually best to remember that the P
in Pod (like peas in a pod) stands for plain. :-)

Sometimes that is constraining, sometimes Pod isn't plain enough.

John.
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