Re: the best perl editor/ide on win32?

[alftheo]

I use emacs:

• syntax highlighting
• autoindent according to syntax
• integrated debugger
• Shell window to run scripts in
• if you don't want to, you *never* have to use the mouse
• cross-platform
• support for almost all languages
• free

I know it's a bit of a pain to learn the keys, but I think its worth it.

Activestate is also working for a MS Development Studio plug-in, which will let you go the whole windows hog.

And finally, a number of people here use Visual SlickEdit, which is very nice.

[davorg]

I use Xemacs on both Windows and Unix. The Win32 port is available from:

• ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/binaries/win32/
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<http://www.dave.org.uk>

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me

[kevin_i_orourke]

XEmacs is probably my favourite, although a little large. I've recently tried ActiveState's Komodo but it's very slow on my 500MHz Pentium.

-- Kevin O'Rourke

[royalanjr]

The syntax hilighting does not seem to work on an NT box, or am I just missing something?

Roy Alan