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>>>>> "Felix" == Felix Lee <flee@teleport.com> writes:

Felix> the main problem I see with integrating perl with emacs is
Felix> the 'buffer'.  eg, perl's regexp engine won't work on
Felix> buffers.  I don't see a simple way of adding a buffer type
Felix> to perl without forcing you to do buffer<->string
Felix> conversions all the time, which is nasty.

Well, there's already a Perl-embedded-in-Emacs available, so you
could just try it. :)  It's been in the CPAN for quite a while,
and recently updated to support 5.6.

See <http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Emacs-PerlmacsPatch>

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