[Catalyst] IDE/editor

TCB tcb at thadbrown.com
Tue Nov 14 17:09:37 GMT 2006


I've been messing a bit with this of late myself. I've tried using Eclipse
(www.eclipse.org) for a while with the (quite nice) Perl plug-in, mostly because
it let me work on both XP boxes and *nix machines pretty easily with a nearly
identical user experience. Also, if you have to work with databases the SQL
Explorer plugin is really quite good, and there's a subversion plug-in as well.
However, for the actual Perl I'm more and more back using xemacs and using
Eclipse just as a SQL visual query/edit tool like Toad. 

I don't use OS X but one caveat with Eclipse if you decide to check it out, you
need to use Sun java, not anything else. Getting rid of the gnu java emulation
and getting 'real' java on a debian box was a minor pain, while getting it onto
an OpenBSD machine was easy but took a very long time to compile. Not having to
deal with java is yet another reason to stick to emacs, IMHO.

TCB

On Tue Nov 14 10:25 , catalyst.20.chsg at spamgourmet.com sent:

>I hesitate to ask this question because it seems to often result in
>some juvenille flame war.  Everyone is different, with different needs
>and preferences.  That's why we have choices.  It's Perl after all,
>right? [grin]
>
>With that out of the way, what IDE or editor works well for you?
>
>My default has been VIM since I'm really comfortable in it and can
>edit text really fast with it.  However, as a very visual person, I
>find it cumbersome when having to flip back and forth between all of
>the files.  This is especially true since I'm new to Catalyst and
>don't have everything solidified in my head.
>
>As a side note, I work on OS X, so any references to Windows-only
>programs won't really be useful but may be for others who come accross
>this thread.
>
>I'm mostly just interested in what has worked for you (and will take
>everything with that grain of salt), not what is crappy about other
>programs.
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Conan.
>
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