• Your editor of choice is..
• perl perl use with VIM editor
• Perl Development Environments
• Visual Perl & ActiveState
• Pretty Win9x Perl Editor/IDE?
• Editor/IDE Reviews.

tilly already mentioned above that neophyte has a pretty comprehensive list o' editors at her home node, so I won't repeat it here.   That you should check out neophyte's node, that is.   ;^)
    cheers,
    Don
    striving for Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

UPDATE
Please follow the link. When you get there the relevance hopefully will be obvious. And in answer to a chatter, no, neophyte is not a text editor... :-)

LOL
Actually I sometimes do edit texts, so strictly speaking I would be a text editor. Anyway, my homenode is not fully relevant to this seekers question - I have only done a list without preferences. I would like to add preferences, but I cannot: those preferences are highly individual.
Let me add a note of warning:
The editors that were added by users are not necessarily their choice when it comes to using them. My fellow Monks just wanted to complete a collection of editors.

neophyte

Textpad is the best... syntax highlighting, line numbering, the ability to add/create your own add-in tools, macros, workspaces... tons of stuff.

For instance, my tools menu in Textpad has "Perl - Check syntax", "Perl - Run in Console", and "Perl - Capture output", all of which act on the currently open file. I've also written my own "plug-ins" for Textpad in Perl, such as Dictionary/Thesaurus lookups, and the ability to send someone the open document simply by entering an e-mail address.

Plus, it's very fast, and only $27.

Alan "Hot Pastrami" Bellows

Everyone has their own way of doing things. I gave my option on what I like and I get down voted! That is screwed up! The question was about a perl editor on a Win 32 system. Perlbuildier is a compilor along with a text editor. So why did I get voted down on giving my option and trying to help another monk?
curtisb

Personally, I really like UltraEdit-32. I tried perlbuilder and didnt care for it. My evaluation period is about up on UltraEdit-32 and I'm probably going to pay to register it. It's only $30.00. You should try it and see if you like it.

Another editor that I have used on windows is the GNU Emacs for windows 95/98/2000/NT. If you do any work on unix/linux systems its nice to have the consistent interface. You can go here for the faq for the windows port.

Thats my 2 cents
zzSPECTREz

Religious wars may be monks' business, but clerics are not allowed to use edged weapons. So be blunt if need be, but no cutting remarks!

A bargain at $30.

• syntax highlighting
• autoindent according to syntax
• integrated debugger
• Shell window to run scripts in
• if you don't want to, you *never* have to use the mouse
• cross-platform
• support for almost all languages
• free

Activestate is also working for a MS Development Studio plug-in, which will let you go the whole windows hog.

And finally, a number of people here use Visual SlickEdit, which is very nice.

I use Xemacs on both Windows and Unix. The Win32 port is available from:

• ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/binaries/win32/
--
<http://www.dave.org.uk>

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me

XEmacs is probably my favourite, although a little large. I've recently tried ActiveState's Komodo but it's very slow on my 500MHz Pentium.

-- Kevin O'Rourke

The syntax hilighting does not seem to work on an NT box, or am I just missing something?

Roy Alan

I use editplus available for a free trial version at http://www.editplus.com for the full version it's something like 30 shells, but it has syntax editors for perl, c/c++, html, and java. Other syntax can be imported but I stick to the basic 4 languages. check it out, it's the best thing since sliced notepad in my book.