What editor to use?

For Perl & Mason

[Vali]

Hi

I’m looking for a text editor that works nicely with perl / mason.
Something like Dreamweaver (the code view part) that color codes your code.

At the moment I’m using ConTEXT but it messes up my tabs to much. And I can’t use dreamweaver because it’s 600$ US :p

What windows editors do you guys know off? (Must use windows shortcut keys, and highlight syntax for at least perl, in or out of mason.)

Can’t wait for your replies.
Vali

[jatar_k]

I just use Textpad for coding, it does syntax hichlighting and some other things

it doesn't do brace matching and more intensive GUI stuff, but that's the way I like it

[rocknbil]

Macromedia Homesite kicks-A for any hand coding - Perl, Javascript, HTML, you name it. Too many features to mention.

A thing to look for in a text editor is whether it can save files as Unix or PC files. In the past, plain text files from Notepad would server error for whatever reason, even if uploaded ASCII - it had something to do with end of line characters (can't remember.) Homesite can save in PC or Unix format.

[wruppert]

I like EditPlus. It does Perl syntax highlighting, can save as Unix or PC, has builtin FTP. It has a lot of features. I have also configured it to run perl -c (compile check) as well.

[simon2263]

Crimson Editor is a good freeware text editor with syntax highlighting.

[physics]

For perl on windows I recommend EditPlus also.

[tsalmark]

Unless you are going all the way with Emacs or VIM I also recommend Edit Plus.

Many editors in windows are simillar, Edit Plus's RegEx was amaizing before the others were even good. I have to say of all the Text Editors I have tried on Windows the reason I keep going back to Edit Plus is that is looks good. I prefer the GUI layout/color scheme etc. but the syntax highlighting is far and away better than the others, according to my opinion.

[moltar]

7 years writing perl. Tried tons of editors, and I also keep coming back to EditPlus. I think notepad++ follows really close.

[perl_diver]

Firstpage 2000 is free and looks very similar to EditPlus. It is a very feature rich text editor that works well for scripted languages like perl but of course lacks the features a real perl IDE would have, like debugging and listing all sub routines/variables and etc etc etc. As far as how it interfaces with Mason I have no clue.

[evrsoft.com...]

[perl_diver]

some free perl IDE's

[sourceforge.net...]
[indigostar.com...]
[perl-express.com...]

[12letters]

I use, and recommend, UltraEdit for script editing and db conversion.

www.ultraedit.com