NAME

Term::GentooFunctions - provides gentoo's einfo, ewarn, eerror, ebegin and eend.

SYNOPSIS

use Term::GentooFunctions qw(:all)

einfo "this is kinda neat...";

ebegin "I hope this works...";
 ....
eend $truefalse; # the result is backwards of gentoo; ie, 0 is bad, 1 is good.

prints

einfo, ewarn, and error show informative lines

ebegin and eend

ebegin and eend show the beginning and ends of things.

Additionally, eend returns the result passed in for handy returns at the bottom of functions...

sub eg {
    eend 0; # eg now returns a false!!  Huzzah!
}

Lastly, eend will use $_ if it is not passed any arguments.

indents

you can also use eindent and eoutdent to show trees of things happening:

einfo "something" eindent einfo "something else" # indented eoutdent einfo "something else (again)" # un-dented

bash

BTW, Term::GentooFunctions will use RC_INDENTATION and RC_DEFAULT_INDENT from /sbin/functions.sh... So you can eindent in a bash_script.sh and your perl_script.pl will use the indent level! However, to get it to work you must

export RC_INDENTATION RC_DEFAULT_INDENT 

before you fork to perl. Also, T::GF won't be able to modify the indent level in a way that will propagate back up to bash (obviously).

AUTHOR

Paul Miller <jettero@cpan.org>

I am using this software in my own projects... If you find bugs, please please please let me know. :) Actually, let me know if you find it handy at all. Half the fun of releasing this stuff is knowing that people use it.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007 Paul Miller -- LGPL [attached]

SEE ALSO

Term::Size, Term::ANSIColor, Term::ANSIScreen