SPUG: Editor for perl on Win98

Rick Brannan rick at libronix.com
Wed Apr 12 10:53:58 CDT 2000


Mat:

I use TextPad (http://www.textpad.com) on Win98. It seems to meet all of
your requirements sans the linux requirement. You can download an evaluation
version from the site for free, and the cost for a single user license is
somewhere between $20-$30.

TextPad will also let you associate different file types (*.pm, *.pl, *.cgi)
with it, and you can create a "User Tool" that will run the active document
(i.e., a perl script) with your application of choice (i.e., perl). You can
even specify command line args for these 'User Tools' (-d, anybody?). I've
actually used this combination many times before, even with ActiveState's
Perl Debugger, and it works great for me.

Hope it helps,

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Rick Brannan, Libronix Corp.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mathew Watson [mailto:matw at halcyon.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:05 AM
>To: SPUG
>Subject: SPUG: Editor for perl on Win98
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>I put together some perl code on a linux system using Emacs and vi.
>Now I want to play with it on Win 98, but I dislike any of the MS
>editors. Which editor should I use if I want
>- auto indenting based on syntax,
>- syntax based color highlighting,
>- not too demanding on the OS (Win 98 makes me nervous), and
>- free or low cost (like $20 or something).
>Besides those features it would be nice if it
>- also runs on Linux
>- also handles C gracefully, and
>- can run perl code in a separate window (and debug it).
>
>Related to my editor question ... I installed perl on the 98 box and
>any *.pl file has a little icon associated with it. Whenever I double
>click on such an icon, an MSDOS window flashes by. What I really want
>is to have the text editor open the file so I can read it. How do I
>accomplish that without breaking my ability to run perl from an
>editor or MSDOS window? Right now if I go to 'File Types' theres a
>command associated with 'open', C:\Perl\bin\Perl.exe "%1" %*. Can I
>just replace the executable name?
>
>Mat
>
>
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