I've been using Multi-Edit for the last 6 years and find that it is still awesome for my everyday, all day Perl development efforts.
I do occasionally use V-Edit because of its ability to visually show Ctrl characters, but Multi-Edit is otherwise my editor of choice. Multi-Edit is not free (and probably runs $200 these days), but neither are Bosch screw guns, but I don't know many professional builders that are using Black & Decker screw guns.... :-) Despite what some folks will have you believe, you usually get what you pay for... and there is definitely no free lunch. My office mate is new to Perl and so I got him started with Multi-Edit and Perl from day one. He's loving both. He's pretty much stopped using all the other text editors he brought with him and keeps finding more and more features in Multi-Edit to use. And he's just loving Perl.... he's had 38 years in software development, all the way from Assembler to C to C++ to Java and now to Perl.... And I think he's seen the light! He did something the other day in one line in Perl that he said took him about 30-60 pages of code in assembler a few year back... :-) I find Komodo really slow-w-w-w to fire up, and unintuitive to use, but that may just be my lack of trying. I like it's regular expression help tool though. Some of the other folks around the office use some of the freebie editors, and they find them OK. However, when I see them trying to do things in their editors that Multi-Edit can do simply, they usually waste a lot of time. I'm busy, I need something that is powerful and fast, and Multi-Edit doesn't let me down. My 2 cents. Howard Maher _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
