Perl syntax highlighting

[Smylers]

William Blunn writes:

> What do people reckon to use when wanting to do Perl syntax
> highlighting (Perl ? HTML), such as one might want to use in one's
> source code repository browser.

As a Vim user, I like Text::VimColor. This actually delegates the
highlighting to Vim, meaning that the colours output exactly match those
in my editor.

> * a single quote in POD apparently being interpreted as the start of a
> string literal
> 
> * a single quote in a comment apparently being interpreted as the
> start of a string literal
> 
> * a single quote in q{...} string apparently being interpreted as the
> start of a string literal

Vim gets all of those correct.

Smylers
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