You're asking for a bloody great flame war aren't you?
But I've not had *that* much coffee yet.
You say Komodo has syntax highlighting: so has Textpad.
The advantage of Textpad is that I wrote the better of
the Perl syntax files.
So there.
At 07:16 06/04/2001 -0500, Gregg Martinson wrote:
>Textpad is not on a par with Komodo. Komodo has syntax highlighting, it
>helps build regexen and it is free find it at www.activestate.com. Just my
>2 cents.
>
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lee
>Goddard
>Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:09 AM
>To: James D Carella; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Please Help!
>
>At 20:10 23/01/2031 -0500, James D Carella wrote:
> >Hello,
>
>Hello.
>
> > Can someone help me please?
>
>Probably: you're in the right place. Let's see.
>
> > I am definitely starting out in the
> >programming thing and I am trying and learning Perl.
>
>Good place to start ;)
>
> >I have downloaded
> >the newest version and to my knowledge it has been installed correctly.
>
>Okay.
>
> >What I need help with is the DOS command line part of a simple script. I
> >will write the script in Notepad
>
>Oh, yuck! Aren't you disgusted with Notepad already?!
>I use www.textpad.com 's shareware editor: great syntax
>highlighting for Perl (download perl3.syn from their
>download add-ons section!), and you can even get it to
>send your scripts straight from Perl at the press of a
>button.
>
> >and then save it correctly. When I go
> >to open it in the DOS command prompt it wont work and it just keeps on
> >saying something like "Bad command or file name". I can't seem to just
>
>Sounds like you haven't got Perl on your PATH.
>If you're running Win2k, right click MY COMPUTER,
>select PROPERTIES -> ADVANCED -> ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
>-> SYSTEM VARIABLES -> EDIT 'path'. This contains
>a list of paths to programs, separated by semi-colons.
>Add the path to dir where Perl resides usually C:/perl/bin)
>and don't forget the semi-colon to separate it from
>other paths.
>
>If you're running Win9*, open your AUTOEXEC.bat file;
>add at the bottom the line:
>
> PATH=%PATH%;c:/perl/bin/
>
>where c:/perl/bin/ is the path to the dir where Perl.exe
>resides.
>
>Then open a command window and type 'perl -v' without
>the quotes, and you should get a message saying which
>version of perl you have installed. If you don't get
>that, check the above steps again.
>
>
> >run it in the DOS command prompt and when I find the file in Microsoft
> >Explorer and double-click it it seems to run by opening a DOS window and
> >flashing quickly the script that I wrote in Notepad. So I have said all
>
>Because you have the file's extension automatically associated
>with Perl.exe (done in the AS install).
>
>HTH
>lee
>
>
>
>
> >that to say this; that is it supposed to flash that DOS window with the
> >script in it? And also please tell me what to do with running it from
> >the DOS command line. For anyone' s information, I am using a tutotial
> >from programmingtutorials.com under Perl tutorials. It is the first
> >tutorial and it is titled something like "Robert's Perl Tutorial". Sorry
> >to be so detailed. This the only way to ask for help. E-mail me back at
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> >
> > James Carella
> >
> >
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