how to use allout with perl?

how to use allout with perl?

[Bill White]

I've learned to love allout mode with planner and muse; now I'd like
to use it to organize perl code, but I can't figure out what prefixes
to use in my perl file (which is in emacs' standard perl mode).  Any
suggestions?

I've tried things like

#.*
##.*
# .*
#. *
###_* (mimicing allout.el)

and on and on.  A prefix of '*' works, but the thing needs to be
commented out, which seems to break allout's magic.  Of course, I have
this at the bottom of the file after __END__:

Local variables:
allout-layout: (1 : )
End:

Many thanks for any ideas!

bw
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Re: how to use allout with perl?

[Bill White]

Bill White wrote:
> I've learned to love allout mode with planner and muse; now I'd like
> to use it to organize perl code, but I can't figure out what prefixes
> to use in my perl file (which is in emacs' standard perl mode).  Any
> suggestions?

As usual, I stumbled upon the answer just after posting :-)  In
~/.emacs:

(add-to-list 'allout-mode-leaders '(perl-mode . "###_"))

or whatever strikes your fancy.  Then in your .perl file, use comments
like this:

###_. or
###_#1 or
###_, etc.

Cheers -

bw