Hello everyone, I am a new Padre user and am excited to see such a professional IDE completely written using Perl and CPAN!
Whenever I look at a new Perl text editor or full-blown IDE one of the first things I look at and am typically disappointed in is the syntax highlighting. I feel that with Perl 5, with it very rich syntax, it is critical to have a syntax highlighter that is also extremely rich, granular and makes it easier for the eye to differentiate between various components of the syntax. I am sure it has it's deficiencies (one being that it's not really developed anymore) but I have always used *NEdit* as my Perl text editor of choice, particularly because it has hands down the best built-in Perl syntax hightlighter I've ever seen. It has such granular highlighting of the Perl 5 syntax (like full and subtle regex highlighting, etc.) and seems to use the right colors for every part of the syntax to make elements very clear to the programmer. The highlighter work very fast even with large files. It uses highlighting patterns and deferred (pass-2) parsing (see http://www.nedit.org/help/patterns.php#Highlighting_Patterns) How can one get such a rich syntax highlighter into Padre? The different syntax highlighters available in Padre just don't even compare. For such an old text editor that hasn't been really developed further since 2004, how did NEdit get it so right? kind regards, Leandro Hermida
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