SPUG: Re: Editor for perl on Win98

[Sean Owens]

I like VI for Windows (also called gvim.exe).  It will color code most
anything (including perl & C), it's free, you can set up auto indents (and
line numbering, which for me is a must).  It'll also do just about anything
you ask, if you know how to ask! (I pretty much just use the mouse & menu
functions though, not a true VI user I know, but it does what I need).
There are also tons of options you can set to make it more windows-like, or
more unix-like.

It also allows you to run your file directly in a command window, but I
don't really use that so I don't know much about it.

It's tough to use sometimes, which probably isn't surprising since there are
books written just to teach you how to use it (unlike say, notepad :-)

And, of course, there's versions of VI for all OS's

You can find it here:
www.vim.org  You have to click around to find a mirror site that actually
carries the windows binaries.  Read the readme's there, but remember you
have to download two files (one is the executable, the other is all the
other stuff that makes it functional).

Hope this helps.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathew Watson" <matw at halcyon.com>
To: "SPUG" <spug-list at pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:05 AM
Subject: SPUG: Editor for perl on Win98



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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