EPIC - User's Guide

Table of Contents

1. Plug-in Installation

Prerequisites

Eclipse

Perl

Considerations when using Cygwin

Installing EPIC

Uninstalling EPIC

2. Setting Up Preferences

General Preferences

Code Assist

Editor

Source Formatter

Task Tags

Templates

Associating Files with the Perl Editor

CVS Setup

Setting Up the Debugger

3. Perl Projects

Creating a Project

Perl Include Path

Converting an Existing Project

Recommended Project Layout

4. Eclipse Basics

Perspectives

Views

Using Perspectives

New Perspectives

Configuring Perspectives

Saving a User Defined Perspective

Resetting Perspectives

Using Views

Opening Views

Moving and Docking Views

5. Working with the Perl Editor

Syntax Check

Explain Errors and Warnings

Open Declaration

Perldoc

Quick Reference

Code Assist

Variable Inspection

Module Inspection

External Content Assistant

Task Markers

Templates

Defining Templates

Using Templates

Source Formatter

Source Folding

Refactoring

Extract Subroutine

HTML Export

Outline View

6. Using the Perl Debugger

Launching Perl Programs

Launching Perl Programs in Run Mode

Re-launching a Perl Program

Creating Launch Configurations

Perl Local: Running a Perl Script on the Local Machine

Perl CGI: Run Perl Programs in a CGI Environment

Perl Remote: Debug a Perl Script on a Remote Machine

Breakpoints

Setting Breakpoints

Enabling or Disabling Breakpoints

Removing Breakpoints

Views in the Debug Perspective

Debug View

Variables View

Breakpoints View

Perl Expression View

Stepping Through the Execution of a Perl Program

Step Over

Step Into

Run to Return

7. RegExp Plug-in

Enabling the RegExp View

Using the RegExp Plug-in

Debugging Regular Expressions

8. Known Bugs & Problems

9. References