quote">On 1/26/07,
Kenneth Ölwing <<=
a href=3D"mailto:kenneth@olwing.se">kenneth@olwing.se> wrote:=
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I was only looking for an editor which allows color-coded editing =
for
> perl.
> But I guess I can get more, like help with regula=
r expressions etc. also
> from these so called 'IDE's.
>
> Can someone please suggest the best free IDE for me to use wit=
h perl. Just
> one internet search returned many choices and I do not=
want to experiment
> with many IDEs.
Hi Rajeev,
I thin=
k you have to resign yourself to *some* experimentation, simply
because not everyone agrees on what the 'best' IDE (or editor) =
is...there's
a question if you are only on Windows, only on Unix/Lin=
ux - or if you want
to have portable skills.
Bill suggests emacs =
or vi/vim/gvim - probably good choices in many respects,
especially if you want to jump between a Windows and Unix/Linux system =
and
use the 'same' editor. Personally I'd love to become pro=
ficient with Emacs,
but so far I'm having a terrible time of getting=
rid of the finger dancing
of Windows style cut-n-paste etc...:-(. Still - very capable and comple=
tely
free.
Another issue is whether you'll be ok with 'ju=
st' an editor or want a 'real'
IDE (i.e. something that also=
encompasses debugger, build system and all the
other things). It's not quite correct to compare somethink like Ecl=
ipse
(definitively an IDE) with, say, emacs - though with a fair amount =
of extra
work you can customize emacs to become exactly what you want. T=
here are pros
and cons to each.
As a basic but working and capable *editor* I&=
#39;ve been using Textpad for many
years (
com">www.textpad.com). It's nowhere near an IDE, nor as customizabl=
e like
emacs, but does the job for all my regular text editing jobs, and has
r>multiple color-coding settings coming with it, including Perl. You can us=
e
the eval for free, but it's cheap to avoid the small nags.
For a full IDE, personally I would at this time look at Eclipse and the=
EPIC
Perl plugin for it (
ht=
tp://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/). As a longtime user of
Eclipse for Ja=
va development I'm very comfy with the Eclipse environment and
plugin mechanisms. Here you'll get integrated debugger support, col=
or
coding, code-completion and a bunch of stuff. Very capable, and compl=
etely
free.
Something I have never looked at is the Komodo thingi=
e from ActiveState -
may be that's your ticket? Should be capable, considering. Can prob=
ably be
evaled free and should be cheap.
Anyway, there's noth=
ing inherently wrong with any of these choices, it's
just a lot of u=
ser preferences and circumstances you need to consider. About
the only thing you pretty much can't use is notepad unless you'=
re a true
masochist...:-).
HTH,
ken1
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