IDEs
- Padre is free, supposedly it knows more about Perl internals than other IDEs.
- Syntax highlighting: View|Style|Evening
- Current line highlight colour: Tools|Preferences|Appearance|Editor Current Line Background Colour
- Eclipse is free but, seems very heavyweight. Extensible with plugins (Version control, etc. See EPIC for Perl)
- Komodo is paid, but is explicitly designed for Perl. It has a remote debugging feature, which works! You have to install a script on the remote server, and have access to the remote fileystem to display the source code.
- NetBeans is free
- IntelliJ IDEA is paid, and has no Perl plugin
- vim - I use this a lot. It has keyword lookup (if you can configure it), a powerful but difficult-to-use scripting language, and tabs, but no debugging support. Lots of scripts/add-ons available.
- Emacs - some of my colleagues use it, can be very powerful with add-ons/perl modules
- UltraEdit
- Textpad - Windows only. Nice to use, has plugins
- Sublime - A nice text editor
Further reading
- Why should I use an IDE?
- TODO: [an article on coding horror or somewhere "what would a good IDE look like?"] where is it?
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