Textpad is OK for Windows editing of perl code. It's very stable. It does syntax higlighting very well (in four different flavors), and you can add menu options that trigger programs. When triggering a program you can e.g provide the path to the current file, the selected word or selected line as arguments. You cannot pass on a multi-line selection, which is a pity, since that would make it easy to just select an arbitrary piece of code and transform it in nifty ways.

So in my setup I have these menu options:

• Run perl with current file (duh!)
• Check perl syntax
• Look up selected word with perldoc
• Start ptk debugger with current file
• Check in current file to CS-RCS revision control system

(If anyone has some more Textpad solutions for perl, please let me know.)

It doesn't do any context-sensitive help, does not simulate CGI input, although you can probably use external programs as above to get something half-integrated, but not right into the GUI.

/jeorgen

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