>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matthew> I'm interested in hearing what people use as their code
Matthew> editors in their respective environments and what their
Matthew> opinions are of them.
emacs or vim.
Matthew> When I'm stuck on the MS platform I use CodeWhiz, which is
Matthew> a neat little program that formats key words and functions
Matthew> while I type. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way
Matthew> of getting it to recognize $foo, %foo or @foo as something
Matthew> to format so I'll only give it ***1/2 out of 5 stars.
both emacs and vim are pretty good at recognizing key words. gvim, or
the graphical vim is probably nicer than emacs for perl mode.
Matthew> Under the *nices I generally use pico (and vi when pico is
Matthew> not around), in part because I haven't found a code editor
Matthew> that does anything special with perl code and also because
Matthew> I'm sometimes connected remotely to the machine. Maybe it's
Matthew> time to learn emacs, but my head hurts every time I've
Matthew> tried it.
vim may be the better choice for you then. You can find it at
http://www.vim.org. It works quite nicely on NT and on linux.
HTH
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- Vinny
