Re: What's the best Perl IDE/editor?

Personally, I do much of my perl programming in UltraEdit, however I recently have started to also use VisualPerl.

You will find an ultraedit wordfile for Perl 5.6 that I put together here.(The default one chews IMO, and doesnt recognize many perl5.6 keyswords)

Ultraedit can be a tiny bit finiky to set up and configure correctly but it supports very large files very well, has support for rectangular capture, hex mode and a bunch of other features that make it a tool that sees a lot of use in our shop.

VisualPerl is part of the whole DotNet stuff so it may not be what you want.

Yves / DeMerphq
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Re: What's the best Perl IDE/editor?
by lostcause (Monk) on May 28, 2002 at 20:53 UTC

Ultraedit has been mentioned a few times and it used to be my favorite The newer version even does word completion.
Recently I have moved over to Komodo from ActiveState.
I was just looking at the Activestate Komodo site and realized that they now charge $30 for a copy of the newest version.
What I did notice was that version 1.1 is still free you may want to use that instead, here is the link.
Komodo feels a little slower than Ultraedit but has a built in debugger, RegEx builder, Code-folding and apparently
remote debugging for CGI scripts which I haven't yet tried. The info blurb is here. I fine the AutoCompletion and in IDE
debugging the biggest productivity enhances. I doesn't handle very long lines quite as well as Ultraedit and doesn't
have a spell checker as yet but if I'm going to sit down and code for more than a few minutes it is what I use.

Richard

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