On 11/23/06, D. Bolliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Octavian Rasnita am Freitag, 24. November 2006 06:17:
> From: "Paul Brasseur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Try PSPad ! It is a Great Perl/PHP Editor. It has many nice
> > Features such
> > as Permanent and Descriptive Bookmarks, add a Comment to Line(s), Code
> > Explorer Window. It easily can be set to run Apache and/or Xitami. It
> > is written
> > by a Computer Science Instructor in Eastern Europe.
>
> Ok. I will need to study it a little better, because I couldn't find how to
> run a perl program with it.
> I just want to use a key combination (like Control+Shift+R), a pop-up
> window prompting for parameters should appear, and after typing the
> parameters and hit enter, the results or the errors should be printed in
> another
> document-window which should be created.
> Is this possible with PsPad?
Hi Octavian
Emacs / Xemacs can do that all; check syntax, run with output in new window,
rcs/cvs integration, syntax highlighting, automatic (and of course
customizable) source formatting support...
And it has much much *much* more features I don't know/use yet! It's not only
a "perl editor", it's an "all purpose editor".
(Can't compare to vim since I only use nano or vi in a terminal for system
admin)
Dani
As I was watching this thread progress, I kept wondering why no one
had suggested emacs. It takes a little while to learn some of the
features and get used to the key-bindings, but once you get used to
it, there's nothing better (in my experience). Just this morning I
was experimenting with how to implement the same pseudocode in perl,
python, and java. I had three horizontal sections open in my emacs
window and was simultaneously (multi-threading my brain) writing the
.py, .pl, and .java files. Each buffer knew how to handle the syntax
highlighting and such for each language. It was editor bliss.
I write my perl code on many different machines, and I've yet to
encounter a linux/unix system that didn't have emacs already installed
(though it's not as prevalent as vi, I think). I have to download it
for my windows systems, but after that initial download, it's so nice
to have an editor that's so portable and behaves the same way
regardless of what machine I'm on.
I find that I can type faster than I can verbally process. So, if I
want to save, I want my brain to think "Save", then my fingers
immediately type C-x s, instead of "okay, I want to save now... I'm
going to move my mouse over to the File menu... click save... ok...
done." Of course, I don't think there are many editors out there that
don't have a key binding for saving, but emacs has key-bindings for
everything (and you can make your own). This morning when I was
copying some code from the perl source to the java source file, I had
to change all of the single quoted strings to double quoted strings.
Took less than a second: Alt-% ' Return " Return ! Return.
Takes a while to learn, but it's worth it. And that was my long way
of saying, "I whole-heartedly second your recommendation, Dani."
Good luck!
- Jen
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