SPUG: PC Perl Development Environment?

[Todd Smith]

There are also windows distributions of emacs and Xemacs - work just like unix
except for the funny dos~.nam names.

Todd

Lorraine Johnson wrote:

> At 07:17 AM 5/9/00 -0700, Brian Schieber wrote:
> > I have some tasks to do in PERL under Windows NT.  Are there are any
> >preferred development tools or editors used by this group?
>
> Hello,
>
> I haven't been doing Perl long, but I'll plug my favorite Windows editor,
> TextPad (www.textpad.com), which I've been using for years.  The demo is
> fully functional - it just nags you periodically.  It behaves beautifully
> under '95 and NT.  It's reasonably-priced ($27), and has some great features.
>
> For example, you can add "clip libraries" - basically code snippets.  You
> can write your own or download user-donated libraries from the TextPad site
> (there is a Perl clip library available).  If you also download the perl2
> syntax library, you can color-code your code.
>
> TextPad reads and writes PC, Unix, and Mac format, and large files, at
> that.  (Useful, for example, if you have a 28Meg server log file which for
> some bizarre reason is in Mac format and you need to get it in Unix format
> for analysis.)
>
> Block select mode to move parts of sequential lines; flexible
> search/replace; macros; sort; find <string> in files produces a listing
> which will open the mentioned file at the line the string is in; spelling
> checker (download your language preference)....  In sum, loads of handy
> features in a rock-solid product.
>
> Lorraine
>
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