From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:51:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Make the editor/IDE/shell list a little bit airier. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=68fbfbd7eb12a89f116349a7f9f1aa96d64e9cec;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Make the editor/IDE/shell list a little bit airier. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9593 --- diff --git a/pod/perlfaq3.pod b/pod/perlfaq3.pod index d94c797..49cae1a 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq3.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq3.pod @@ -163,32 +163,85 @@ 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. -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, +If you want a Windows IDE, check the following: + +=over 4 + +=item CodeMagicCD + +http://www.codemagiccd.com/ + +=item 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) +(Visual Perl, a Visual Studio.NET plug-in is currently (early 2001) 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.codemagiccd.com/) is another IDE. The Object System + +=item The Object System + (http://www.castlelink.co.uk/object_system/) is a Perl web applications development IDE. +=item PerlBuilder + +(http://www.solutionsoft.com/perl.htm) is an integrated development +environment for Windows that supports Perl development. + +=item Perl code magic + +(http://www.petes-place.com/codemagic.html). + +=item visiPerl+ + +http://helpconsulting.net/visiperl/, from Help Consulting. + +=back + 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 any emacs the cperl-mode (M-x cperl-mode) gives you perhaps the best available Perl editing mode in any editor. -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://vile.cx), or Vim (http://www.vim.org/) -(win32: http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Etmgil/vi.html). +For Windows editors: you can download an Emacs + +=over 4 + +=item GNU Emacs + +http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html + +=item MicroEMACS + +http://members.nbci.com/uemacs/ + +=item XEmacs + +http://www.xemacs.org/Download/index.html + +=back + +or a vi clone such as + +=over 4 + +=item Elvis + +ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/ http://www.fh-wedel.de/elvis/ + +=item Vile + +http://vile.cx/ + +=item Vim + +http://www.vim.org/ + +win32: http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Etmgil/vi.html + +=back + For vi lovers in general, Windows or elsewhere: http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html. @@ -200,9 +253,23 @@ 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 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/), -SlickEdit (http://www.slickedit.com/). +The following are Win32 multilanguage editor/IDESs that support Perl: + +=over 4 + +=item Codewright + +http://www.starbase.com/ + +=item MultiEdit + +http://www.MultiEdit.com/ + +=item SlickEdit + +http://www.slickedit.com/ + +=back There is also a toyedit Text widget based editor written in Perl that is distributed with the Tk module on CPAN. The ptkdb @@ -212,13 +279,30 @@ acts as a development environment of sorts. Perl Composer GUI creation. In addition to an editor/IDE you might be interested in a more -powerful shell environment for Win32. Your options include the Bash -from the Cygwin package (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/), or the -Ksh from the MKS Toolkit (http://www.mks.com/), or the Bourne shell of -the U/WIN environment (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/), or -the Tcsh (ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/, see also -http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/csh-tcsh-book/), or the Zsh -(ftp://ftp.blarg.net/users/amol/zsh/, see also http://www.zsh.org/). +powerful shell environment for Win32. Your options include + +=over 4 + +=item Bash + +from the Cygwin package (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/) + +=item Ksh + +from the MKS Toolkit (http://www.mks.com/), or the Bourne shell of +the U/WIN environment (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/) + +=item Tcsh + +ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/, see also +http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/csh-tcsh-book/ + +=item Zsh + +ftp://ftp.blarg.net/users/amol/zsh/, see also http://www.zsh.org/ + +=back + MKS and U/WIN are commercial (U/WIN is free for educational and research purposes), Cygwin is covered by the GNU Public License (but that shouldn't matter for Perl use). The Cygwin, MKS, and U/WIN all @@ -232,13 +316,25 @@ 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 -no 32k limit). BBEdit and BBEdit Lite are text editors for Mac OS -that have a Perl sensitivity mode (http://web.barebones.com/). -Alpha is an editor, written and extensible in Tcl, that nonetheless has +no 32k limit). + +=over 4 + +=item BBEdit and BBEdit Lite + +are text editors for Mac OS that have a Perl sensitivity mode +(http://web.barebones.com/). + +=item Alpha + +is an editor, written and extensible in Tcl, that nonetheless has built in support for several popular markup and programming languages -including Perl and HTML (http://alpha.olm.net/). Pepper and Pe are -programming language sensitive text editors for Mac OS X and BeOS -respectively (http://www.hekkelman.com). +including Perl and HTML (http://alpha.olm.net/). + +=back + +Pepper and Pe are programming language sensitive text editors for Mac +OS X and BeOS respectively (http://www.hekkelman.com/). =head2 Where can I get Perl macros for vi?