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<node id="425901" title="Re^2: Eclipse 3 + EPIC 0.3.9" created="2005-01-28 05:54:34" updated="2005-08-14 00:47:03">
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&lt;p&gt;My main editor is now Eclipse 3 and I can recommend it, as long as you have a reasonable cpu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My previous editor was BBEdit on mac, very basic.&lt;br&gt;
I evaluated ActiveState's Komodo, but went with Eclipse; the only thing I missed was code folding.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 'testing' release of the e-p-i-c plugin has code folding, which is very nice, but it only does subroutines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Being able run scripts through my installed perl is great, I usually have a file called test.pl somewhere that I can open up to quickly try something out and run it. I've never really used the debugger integration though.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Auto syntax checking (uses perl -c) is great for productivity; the right scroller will show yellow/red marks for warnings/errors, clicking them will jump to the appropriate line.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another feature I like is the 'outline' window which lists all the subroutines in the file; clicking one will jump to it in the editor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The perldoc integration is dodgy, it'll open a DOS window with the documentation, but after hitting q to close, Eclipse will prompt that the documentation wasn't available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I've just tested the new refactor feature. Select some code, hit refactor and it'll put it out into a new subroutine. Unfortunately the sub was placed at the end of my __DATA__ block.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Running on linux the other day, I had to download Sun's runtime as I couldn't figure out how to get it to work with gnu's.&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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