What are good editors to use with perl?
Codeing perl is much easier and less error prone if you use an programing editor that automatically highlights and indents code. One very popular and powerful (and free) editor is Emacs: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/. A pre-compiled windows version can be found here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html Alan Jackson liks vim: http://www.vim.org. “Does syntax highlighting quite nicely for perl” Kieran Ames likes UltraEdit32: http://www.ultraedit.com. “I swear by UltraEdit32 available at It works fully functional for 30 days and then expires. Registration goes for around $30. I’m coding Perl all day long and would die without it! Fairly thin and goes the distance with just about any language you’d want to use.” Bill Sobel sent a pointer to J: http://www.armedbear.org/. “I was using notepad and switched to ‘J’ and open source development editor. The author, Peter Graves, is a coworker of mine and all around swell guy. This java based editor already includes Perl syn
