rmloveland / cpan-el

Emacs mode for the CPAN shell

cpan.el README

The CPAN shell is just another shell, so why not drive it from Emacs?

cpan.el is a simple shell mode that does just that.

Install

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/path/to/cpan-el/"))
(setf cpan-file-name "cpan")

(require 'cpan)

Run

Start it with M-x cpan.

About

This code is a modified version of the built-in shell.el. There is probably more work needed to get this up to snuff (completion? syntax highlighting?), but it works. It even "works" on Windows (modulo bugs in the way the prompt is displayed, for reasons that are unclear to me).

License

See the file COPYING in this directory. Since it's a modified version of shell.el, we use GPLv3.