Re: equivalent of indent-region?

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 16:06, hw <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 20:14:01 CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> > On Wednesday September 18 2019 16:16:29 hw wrote:
> > >Indentation, particularly in perl, seems to be required to be done
> > >manually. Can't kdevelop don't do indentation?
> >
> > No, on the contrary 8-)
> >
> > I don't know anything about special indentation requirements for perl and
> > KDevelop indeed doesn't seem to have particular support for perl built
> in.
> > But under Tools/Indentation you can select different indentation types
> > which may be sufficient for your needs.
>
> Which one should I use?  I'm assuming that "normal" means that an
> indentation
> is being used which is suited to the contents of the buffer.  In case for
> perl, it is doing the highlighting as can be expected.
>
> This indicates that the editor has figured out that the buffer contents
> are
> perl, so it can do the normal indentation suited to it.  What else should
> I
> expect?  Indentation is normal, as well as --- since quite time now ---
> syntax
> highlighting.
>
> > Why are you using KDevelop to develop in perl? You should get the same
> > editor features in the more light-weight Kate editor which also has a
> > project management feature, and maybe someone already wrote a plugin with
> > additional perl support for it (but a quick search suggests that demand
> is
> > low for this kind of thing - https://www.google.com/search?q=perl+ide)
>
> Why shouldn't I use KDevelop?  It seemed to me that KDevelop is like an
> adorned version of kate in that it has added features some of which could
> be
> useful.
>
> There is reason not to use kate because KDevelop allows one to easily to
> set
> up and to access programs that do stuff with the contents of a buffer.
> That
> allows, for example, to use perltidy on perl buffers every couple lines
> --- or
> should I say it forces me to use perltidy every couple lines, because the
> editor doesn't do indentation and lacks indent-region.  It's ok for
> playing
> around with it, and it won't work at all for actually programming
> something.
>
>
> Since I'm trying out KDE again, I also decided to look at editors again,
> particularly more modern ones which go well with the rest of KDE.  First I
> tried kate and then KDevelop.  I can try out some more, and I would settle
> for
> one eventually as I don't want to have to use several editors.
>
> Before I would be looking for a project management plugin for perl, I am
> looking for basic functionality.  Basic functionality shouldn't be missing.
>
> Since kate is lacking features and since I shouldn't use KDevelop, which
> editor should I use instead of Emacs?
>

If you are already familiar with Emacs, then better to use Emacs rather
than have to learn a whole new IDE to  do what you can already do with what
you know.

Steve