>From the Activestate documentaion, here's a list editors:
What editors are available for Windows?
Windows comes with two editors that are great for editing Perl, NotePad and
WordPad. But, if you need more features for ease of editing, here is a list of free
and commercial editors:
BBEdit - http://www.barebones.com/
A Macintosh editor that supports multiple languages
including Perl. By adding Brad Hanson's BBEdit Plug-Ins you
can run your Perl scripts right in BBEdit
CodeWright - http://www.premia.com/
With Codewright, you choose the compiler, the assembler,
the version control system--any tools you like--and
Codewright works with you. Includes Perl language support.
ED for Windows - http://www.getsoft.com/
ED leads the way in intelligent language sensitive editing.
Supporting both DOS and Windows, ED is as easy to use as
it is to spell. Up and running straight out of the box for the
new user but highly configurable, ED fits the way YOU want
to work. Includes support for Perl syntax highlighting.
GNU Emacs for Windows -
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html
"Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting
real-time display editor."
HomeSite - http://www.allaire.com
HomeSite 4.0 is the award-winning HTML editing tool that
lets you build great Web sites in less time, while maintaining
Pure HTML. Good editor for ASP, and PerlScript.
MultiEdit - http://www.amcyber.com/
MultiEdit is an multiple language editor. Perl language
support includes - smart indenting, template editing,
construct matching, code completion, context highlighting,
brace/parenthesis alignment and line-numbering. Other
MulitEdit features include multiple file search/replace, HTML
and ASP support, web site management, integration with
several IDEs and debuggers, and the ability to compare and
sychronize files while editing.
NoteTab - http://www.notetab.com
Seamless support for Perl and Gawk scripts (only commercial
versions).
Perl Builder - http://www.solutionsoft.com/perl.htm
Perl Builder is a complete, integrated development
environment (IDE) for Perl. Whether you are an experienced
Perl developer or a non-programmer who needs to create
Perl CGI scripts, Perl Builder's visual tools are guaranteed to
dramatically improve your productivity! Perl Builder is a
32-bit application and requires Windows 95 or NT.
Perl Scripting Tool -
PST was intended as a replacement for Windows' Notepad,
which until now has been the editor of choice for Win32
PERL Programmers. While Notepad is usually sufficient there
has long been the need for something with 'just a little
more'. This simple editor is Notepad with a few extra options
for PERL script authoring, including a subroutine library,
code wizard, run, debug, syntax check, floating toolbox and
more. An extremely simple and straight-forward PERL GUI.
Programmer's File Editor (PFE) -
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/
PFE is a large-capacity, multi-file editor that runs on
Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows
2000 on Intel-compatible processors, and on Windows 3.1x.
Although it's primarily oriented towards program developers
and contains features like the ability to run compilers and
development applications, it also makes a very good general
purpose editor for any function at all.
TextPad - http://www.textpad.com
TextPad is a fully featured text editor for Windows. 16 and
32 bit editions available.
UltraEdit - http://www.ultraedit.com/
UltraEdit is a disk based editor with a 16-Bit version for
Windows 3.x and a 32-Bit version for Windows NT and
Windows 95 (not Win32s). It includes bazillions of features
including a Perl wordfile for Perl syntax highlighting.
VIM - http://www.vim.org
The "Vi IMproved" editor -- Now with Perl support. VIM
provides Perl syntax highlighting, and a Perl interface. The
Perl interface provides the ability to run a Perl command or
run a Perl command for each line in a range. For more
information on Perl support, see the Perl and VIM help page.
VisualSlickEdit - http://www.slickedit.com
Visual SlickEdit combines the richest set of powerful editing
features with more configurability than any software
product in any category. Visual SlickEdit is multi-platform,
highly extensible, and fast -- Includes language
color-coding extention for Perl.
WinEdit - http://www.windowware.com/winware/winedit.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm learning Perl for work, where the OS is Unix, but I'd like to practice at
> home, where I'm using Windows 95. I downloaded and installed ActivePerl, but
> can't get anything whatsoever to run, including the example script that came
> with ActivePerl. My questions at this point:
>
> 1) How exactly do I edit a script? In Word and then change it to a .pl
> file? Do I have to change file types back and forth every time I change the
> script?
>
> 2) How do I add the path to the Perl program to MS-DOS?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Leonard
>
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