development environment for Windows that supports Perl development.
PerlDevKit (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perl_Dev_Kit/index.html)
is an IDE from ActiveState supporting the ActivePerl. (VisualPerl,
-a Visual Studio (or Visual.NET, in time) component is currently
+a Visual Studio (or Studio.NET, in time) component is currently
(late 2000) in beta). 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.starbase.com/) is yet another multilanguage editor/IDE.
Perl programs are just plain text, though, so you could download GNU
-Emacs or XEmacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html)
+Emacs or XEmacs
+(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html)
(http://www.xemacs.org/Download/index.html), or a vi clone such as nvi
(available from CPAN in src/misc/) or vim (http://www.vim.org/). Vim
runs on win32 (http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Etmgil/vi.html). Vile is another
(http://www.slickedit.com/) is a full featured commercial editor that
has a modular architecture: it can emulate several other common
editors and it can help with programming language sensitivity modules
-for a variety of programming languages including Perl.
+for a variety of programming languages including Perl. MultiEdit
+(http://www.MultiEdit.com) has a user extendable interface and
+good Perl support.
If you're transferring Windows text files to Unix be sure to transfer
them in ASCII mode so the ends of lines are appropriately mangled.