Perl programs are just plain text, so any editor will do.
-If you're transferring Windows text files to Unix using FTP be sure
-to transfer them in ASCII mode so the ends of lines are appropriately
-converted.
-
If you're on Unix, you already have an IDE--Unix itself. The UNIX
philosophy is the philosophy of several small tools that each do one
thing and do it well. It's like a carpenter's toolbox.
-For Windows: PerlBuilder (http://www.solutionsoft.com/perl.htm) is
-an integrated development environment for Windows that supports Perl
-development. Komodo, ActiveState's cross-platform, multi-language IDE
-has Perl support, including a regular expression debugger and remote
-debugging (http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/Komodo/index.html).
-(Visual Perl, a Visual Studio.NET plug-in is currently in beta
-(late 2000) (http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/VisualPerl/index.html)).
+If you want a Windows IDE, check the following: PerlBuilder
+(http://www.solutionsoft.com/perl.htm) is an integrated development
+environment for Windows that supports Perl development. Komodo,
+ActiveState's cross-platform, multi-language IDE has Perl support,
+including a regular expression debugger and remote debugging
+(http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/Komodo/index.html).
+(Visual Perl, a Visual Studio.NET plug-in is currently (late 2000)
+in beta (http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/VisualPerl/index.html)).
The visiPerl+ IDE is available from Help Consulting
(http://helpconsulting.net/visiperl/). Perl code magic is another IDE
(http://www.petes-place.com/codemagic.html). CodeMagicCD
(http://www.castlelink.co.uk/object_system/) is a Perl web
applications development IDE.
-Editors: if you're on Unix you probably have vi or a vi clone already,
+For editors: if you're on Unix you probably have vi or a vi clone already,
and possibly an emacs too, so you may not need to download anything.
-In anyemacs the cperl-mode (M-x cperl-mode) gives you perhaps the
+In any emacs the cperl-mode (M-x cperl-mode) gives you perhaps the
best available Perl editing mode in any editor.
-In Windows: you can download GNU Emacs
+For Windows editors: you can download GNU Emacs
(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html) or XEmacs
(http://www.xemacs.org/Download/index.html), or a vi clone such as
Elvis (ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/, http://www.fh-wedel.de/elvis/),
-Vile (http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile/vile.html), or
-Vim (http://www.vim.org/) (win32: http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Etmgil/vi.html).
-For vi lovers in general: http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html
+Vile (http://vile.cx), or Vim (http://www.vim.org/)
+(win32: http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Etmgil/vi.html).
+For vi lovers in general, Windows or elsewhere:
+http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html.
nvi (http://www.bostic.com/vi/, available from CPAN in src/misc/) is
-yet another vi clone, not unfortunately available for Windows, but in
+yet another vi clone, unfortunately not available for Windows, but in
UNIX platforms you might be interested in trying it out, firstly because
strictly speaking it is not a vi clone, it is the real vi, or the new
incarnation of it, and secondly because you can embed Perl inside it
to use Perl as the scripting language. nvi is not alone in this,
-though: at least also vim offers an embedded Perl.
+though: at least also vim and vile offer an embedded Perl.
The following are Win32 multilanguage editor/IDESs that support Perl:
Codewright (http://www.starbase.com/), MultiEdit (http://www.MultiEdit.com/),
contain (in addition to the shells) a comprehensive set of standard
UNIX toolkit utilities.
+If you're transferring text files between Unix and Windows using FTP
+be sure to transfer them in ASCII mode so the ends of lines are
+appropriately converted.
+
On Mac OS the MacPerl Application comes with a simple 32k text editor
that behaves like a rudimentary IDE. In contrast to the MacPerl Application
the MPW Perl tool can make use of the MPW Shell itself as an editor (with
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