SPUG: PC Perl Development Environment?

[Lorraine Johnson]

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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J. Lorraine Johnson
SAIC/Sea Technology
lorraine at nw.saic.com
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