Re: Perl Instruction at NIH

[email protected] ("Amir E. Aharoni") Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:34:20 +0200
Newsgroups perl.trainers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Anyone know of any good, free editors for windows?  I'm a vi guy, but on
> my Mac for presentations I use TextWrangler because of it's "Run / Check
> Syntax" feature.  Is there a Win equivalent?

Eclipse IDE with the EPIC plugin does some basic Perl 5 editing and debugging.

Pro - it's free and cross-platform.

Con - it has a lot of bugs itself and Eclipse is a 100+ MB download
(also, some people have ideological problems with the licensing of
Java libraries)