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Here is a rather comprehensive table of Perl Development Tools.

For Emacs users, Devel::PerlySense may be helpful. Helps with:

Documentation of classes, methods
Navigation to classes, base classes, methods, corresponding files
Run tests, with assistance (sync test count)
On-the-fly syntax and Perl::Critic check displayed in the source
Code coverage displayed in the source
Perl Regexp assistant
... and other smaller things

Works on Windows and Unix.

Even without Devel::PerlySense, Emacs already has syntax highlighting and indentation, a visual frontend to the Perl debugger, really nice integration with your version control system, ctags, the best diff/merge feature I've ever used, remote editing, etc. etc. So it's a quite capable package.

I'm not encouraging you to switch to Emacs or anything (it's got quite a daunting learning curve), but if you already use Emacs, make sure you explore all the brilliant tools it has accumulated over the years. Well, decades.

In reply to Re: Perl IDE by jplindstrom
in thread Perl IDE by Anonymous Monk

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