Perl Toolbox

Perl Toolbox for Visual Studio Code provides support for linting and syntax checking for Perl

Features

• Perlcritic linting with customizable severities

• Perl Syntax checking

Requirements

• perl (for syntax highlighting)
• perlcritic (for linting)

Extension Settings

setting	default	description
perl-toolbox.temporaryPath	null	Path to write temporary lint and syntax files to. Defaults to OS specific tmp path
perl-toolbox.syntax.exec	perl	name of the perl binary
perl-toolbox.syntax.path	null	path to the perl binary
perl-toolbox.syntax.enabled	true	enable syntax checking
perl-toolbox.syntax.includePaths	[]	An Array of paths to add to @INC
perl-toolbox.lint.exec	perlcritic	name of the perlcritic binary
perl-toolbox.lint.path	null	path to the perlcritic binary
perl-toolbox.lint.severity	brutal	perlcritic severity [brutal,cruel,harsh,stern,gentle]
perl-toolbox.lint.useProfile	false	use settings in perlcriticProfile
perl-toolbox.lint.perlcriticProfile	null	perlcritic profile; if not specified uses ~/.perlcriticrc
perl-toolbox.lint.excludedPolicies	[]	An array of perlcritic policies to ignore
perl-toolbox.lint.brutal	warning	VS code Problem severity for brutal violations
perl-toolbox.lint.cruel	warning	VS code Problem severity for cruel violations
perl-toolbox.lint.harsh	info	VS code Problem severity for harsh violations
perl-toolbox.lint.stern	info	VS code Problem severity for stern violations
perl-toolbox.lint.gentle	hint	VS code Problem severity for gentle violations
perl-toolbox.lint.highlightMode	line	highlight mode (word/line)

Placeholder $workspaceRoot

You can put in the placeholder $workspaceRoot into

• perl-toolbox.lint.perlcriticProfile
• and perl-toolbox.syntax.includePaths

perlcritic profile

To use project specific perlcritic settings that are the same across all developers in the team, no matter which machine they are using, put a .perlcriticrc file in the root directory of your project, and set the parameter to

$workspaceRoot/.perlcriticrc

include paths

Typically you will have library folders in your project, in a subfolder lib. When you are using carton, the depencies are in a subfolder local/lib/perl5.

To make the syntax check work no matter where the github repository is checked out to, you can use the following two entries in your workspace settings .json file

"perl-toolbox.syntax.includePaths": [
    "$workspaceRoot/lib",
    "$workspaceRoot/local/lib/perl5"
]

Configuration

perl-toolbox.syntax.path and perl-toolbox.lint.path must be set to the directory containing the executable files prior to linting/syntax checking.

Only documents with a "perl" language mode are checked.

Known Issues

• Documents are only checked when they are opened or saved.
• On type checking is not supported.

Troubleshooting

Linting error messages are displayed in "developer Tools"