looking for text editor

[DaveC426913]

I'm looking for a simple, free text editor to edit PERL and shell scripts. The ones I use now (Notepad, Homesite) insert unwanted characters such as carriage returns.

PC, XP, free, straight download, stand alone.

Thx.

 

[mikedaruke]

I think the best thing is UltraEdit but you have to pay after trial. 40 dollars but its well worth it, use it everyday.

 

[TonyGroves]

Ha ha! Here comes another battle in the Editor War (see

http://en.wikipedia.org/Editor_war

)!

Seriously though, vim (at

http://www.vim.org

) is hard to beat. It runs on Windows, Linux, and many other OS's. Its learning curve is steep and its manual heavy, but it's worth it in the end.

 

[eewah]

Hi,

Try

http://www.vim.org/

Very Good!

 

[DaveC426913]

Come on. SIMPLE. BBEdit kind of thing.

 

[TonyGroves]

Ultra Edit is good, but it's not free. Another good one is SciTE, but it does have a problem in that its command line treats backslashes as special characters, so to function well under Windows you would have to write a little Perl script which would convert backslashes to forward-slashes before passing the filename to SciTE.

 

[ishnid]

Hmm. vim is hard to beat? Is that what makes Emacs so good?

Oh come on, *someone* had to say it ;-)

 

[icrf]

I wrote a faq219-5835 on this awhile back, there's a moderate list in there you should check out. I think I'll reference the wikipedia article in there, too.

- Andrew
Text::Highlight - A language-neutral syntax highlighting module in Perl
also on SourceForge including demo

 

[mikedaruke]

You know what would be cool which I am not sure if its possible or if it is available. A program that would take some like this:

if ($var eq 'Test' ) {
$a = 1;
}
else {
$a = 2;
}


And turn it into this:

$a = ($var eq 'Test') ? 1 : 2;

Just so you can see the same code in different ways and learn about easier/shorter/faster ways.

 

[stevexff]

I've been using Jext for a while (perl syntax highlighting, free, unix/dos/mac settings for end-of-line characters)

http://www.jext.org

Recently I switched to Eclipse with the perl E-P-I-C plugin because of the integration with CVS. That's pretty good, too with syntax colouring, 'pretty-perl' reformatter, and even a debugger (under Unix at least). It even has some experimental refactoring support. And free, if you aren't paying by the megabyte for your downloads...

http://www.eclipse.org