a good perl editor for windows

[bobbybobbertson]

i did a thread search for anyone asking about a good perl editor, but came up empty. i sure someone has asked this before but i can't find anything.

i'm looking for a good perl editor for windows. something that has color and highlights things like variables, comments, keywords. it would be nice if it even can catch syntax errors and barewords and such.

right now, i use TextPad with a perl plug in. however, this is not very acurate and can't handle things like:
s#/file/string/search#/file/string/replace#
(the editor thinks this is a comment, due to the # substitution charactor and colors the line look as though it is a comment)

anyone know of anything decent?

 

[tsdragon]

http://www.editplus.com

It's all I use! I love it!
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[tanderso]

I've heard of Windows emacs programs. I just use notepad when on Windows.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com

 

[tsdragon]

Why in the world would anyone port emacs to Windows? That would be like porting edlin to Unix!

(I just admitted to being old enough to even KNOW what edlin IS!)
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[Leland123]

Hi,

You might take a look at Open Perl IDE. It supports windows, linux, and unix. If allow you to write, edit, and run your scripts. It is much like the Visual Studio IDE, etc. but it free.

http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net

Leland

 

[raider2001]

I put a ditto on tsdragon's recommendation for Edit Plus.

 

[Leland123]

Hi,

Me again. I like to use Open Perl IDE to debug my perl scripts, but I use Homesite 4.5 and 5.0 as my editor. It allows me to switch between HTML, Perl, etc. when building a web site.

Leland

 

[bobbybobbertson]

cool,
ill try some of these out.

thanks
again!!

 

[latch]

Perl Builder is a good editor for Windows.

http://www.solutionsoft.com

C
"Brahmaiva satyam"
-Adi Shankara (788-820 AD)

 

[tsdragon]

BY the way, EditPlus has syntax color, tag insertion and a whole bunch of stuff for doing HTML too. PLUS, it has built-in FTP for uploading (and downloading) files. It also has a cliptext system, very good S&R, project management, and more other stuff than I can remember. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[bobbybobbertson]

I just tried out EDIT PLUS.

Its pretty good, but still can't handle things like:

print &quot;<script><!-- \n $my_variable window.resizeTo(130,400); --></script>&quot;

In the print statement above, everything in quotes is the same color.

I would like for the $my_variable variable to be the color of a variable to show that it is interpolated.

I'd also like the \n to show up differently as well.


Also ,if you use modifiers in the search and replace, it is colored as though it is a comment:
s#search#replace# (everything after the first # is colored as though it is a comment)


maybe im just too picky. but if anyone knows of a program that can handle this stuff, please let me know.

 

[MikeLacey]

Gotta be the Open Perl IDE, I use it all the time.

It's not optimised for web development - but I think that's a good thing

Very few bugs, seems quite reliable. Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[Eloff]

I'd have to say optiperl, it has built in ftp, you can use perl pattern matches to search your script, it has a code explorer, debugger, and a sytax checker, not to mention a built in browser that lets you run your scripts from your computer. It is also quite inexpensive ($60 USD with debugging, $40 without) and they give you lifetime free upgrades. Age: 17
School: Alberta Distance Learning Center
Location: British Columbia, Canada
If at first you can't succeed, try, try again. - programmer's motto.

 

[greadey]

I use the windows version of vim. It's a cracker

 

[tsdragon]

bobby: I don't think ANY editor will do what you want. At least I've never heard of one. You might be able to change EditPlus to do some of what you want though. It's syntax files are editable and the documentation on them is pretty good.

Mike: When I get time I think I'm going to give the Open Perl IDE a try. I tried out ActiveState's Komodo IDE, but I didn't care for it that much and it was pretty expensive. I've haven't cared much for any IDE I've tried so far.

Nightmare: I might take look at OptiPerl too. Although it's more expensive than EditPlus and doesn't seem to do that much more.

All: I've tried dozens of different editors, and the one I've found that I like best all-around is EditPlus. Not just for perl, but HTML, javascript, basic text editing, etc. I love the fact that it's so flexible and configurable. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[jjenkins]

I use a tool called &quot;CODEWHIZ&quot; you can download it
from

http://www.incatec.com/cgi-bin/Codewhiz.asp,

it's shareware program

can handle multiple languages. I have used it for numerous
years.

Enjoy