Re^2: What are the criterias of a "good" Perl IDE?

[LanX]

> but I REALLY appreciate being able to execute my scripts from within Geany, and then once I've seen the result, close the terminal window.

Yes this was (meant to be) included in Turnaround / Jump to Error

I configured F5 in emacs to run the code, open a frame with the output and jumping to errors.

Thats basic, every IDE should provide this.

> but Geany has this beautiful documents sidebar...

Geany is really neat, I think you generally mean a multiframe layout with specialized help windows like in ECB

> If I was able to controll the input from within the editor (similar to http://ideone.com, I would consider that an IDE feature

good IDE's allow multiple frames/windows and actions can be scripted, like saving a textbuffer automatically and feeding it as STDIN into a program.

I'm not sure about the easiest way to do this in Emacs or Komodo¹, but I never really needed this on the editor level.

Either it belongs to testing or it's handled with reading from <DATA>, both things happening on the Perl level.

update

¹) see also http://docs.activestate.comkomodo4.4/run.html#run_advanced

in emacs I'd define a macro recording keystrokes to saves the script buffer and runs command with another text-buffer as input. These macro can be saved to file and bound to a key.

Having a code-wizard (like Komodo does) is for sure helpful.