I use GNU Emacs; it comes with spiffy menu-bars to help out if you don't
remember the shortcuts, and it looks nice under Xwindows or on Windows.
Using perl-mode, it indents automatically; lets you know if you forgot a
paren or used the wrong matching paren; colors keywords, strings,
variables, hashes, and arrays, and- very importantly- plays tetris.
This is NOT a flame against VI. :-)
-Daniel
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Matthew Brooks wrote:
> I'm interested in hearing what people use as their code editors in their
> respective environments and what their opinions are of them.
>
> When I'm stuck on the MS platform I use CodeWhiz, which is a neat little
> program that formats key words and functions while I type.
> Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way of getting it to recognize
> $foo, %foo or @foo as something to format so I'll only give it ***1/2
> out of 5 stars.
>
> Under the *nices I generally use pico (and vi when pico is not around),
> in part because I haven't found a code editor that does anything special
> with perl code and also because I'm sometimes connected remotely to the
> machine. Maybe it's time to learn emacs, but my head hurts every time
> I've tried it.
>
>
> Matthew
>
> #.sig here
> use perl || die "Et tu Brute?!: $!\n";
>
