Editor with Perl

Dear Monks,
during the last days I spent some time thinking about a possible editor with Perl as it's internal programming language. Right now I'm highly connected with XEmacs but elisp is not a favorite language of mine, whereas Perl is definetly my favorite language.

Now, before I start thinking about this and posting my first ideas for a whitepaper on the perlmonks (I'd never start such a thing without you, Monks!) I'd like to know whether there are already editors that use perl as their built-in language.
I know of perlmacs but that's not really what I was thinking about (though it would be cool to be able to use emacs' packages, too; but that's another story ;-)

Do you know of any such editors or would you be interested to get involved in such a thing?

Regards Stefan K

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Re: Editor with Perl
by arhuman (Vicar) on Apr 11, 2001 at 15:13 UTC

perlfaq

Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
For a complete version of Tom Christiansen's vi configuration file,
see http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/toms.exrc.gz,
the standard benchmark file for vi emulators.
This runs best with nvi, the current version of vi out of Berkeley,
which incidentally can be built with an embedded Perl interpreter
-- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/misc.

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Re: Re: Editor with Perl

by stefan k (Curate) on Apr 11, 2001 at 16:38 UTC

I don't know if it's a good idea of giving this answer to an Emacs user ;-)

OK, I read it but consider this as an answer "No there is no such editor out there" *grin* No, no, no, please don't start bashing me! No editorwars here. If I'm ready to think about leaving my beloved XEmacs for starting something else I can't be that bad ;-)

Actually I got to admit that I'm impressed that /n*vim*/ is capable of such things.

Regards Stefan K

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(Zigster) Re: Re: Re: Editor with Perl

by zigster (Hermit) on Apr 11, 2001 at 16:56 UTC

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Re: Editor with Perl
by zigster (Hermit) on Apr 11, 2001 at 15:32 UTC

VIM

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Re: Editor with Perl
by greenFox (Vicar) on Apr 11, 2001 at 17:30 UTC

When I was playing with perl Tk a lot (previous job) I built a very simple editor quite quickly using the Tk::Text widget, I think even more sophistication could be achieved using Tk::Text::SuperText Both would be good places to start if you were considering such an endeavour.

You may also want to check this node which suggests the PerlTk text widget is superior to the GTK one.

--
my $chainsaw = 'Perl';

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(Zigster) Re: Re: Editor with Perl

by zigster (Hermit) on Apr 11, 2001 at 17:41 UTC

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Re: (Zigster) Re: Re: Editor with Perl

by Anonymous Monk on Apr 11, 2001 at 17:52 UTC

I think you mean oyster.

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Re: Re: Editor with Perl

by stefan k (Curate) on Apr 11, 2001 at 18:12 UTC

I started this thread to make sure I don't spent deeper thinking on something that has long before been done (probably better than I coud ;-)

It should be a substitute for nothing less than XEmacs. I mean, if it weren't I wouldn't need to change, because XEmacs is cool (yeahyeah vim is pretty well, too ... _if_ you like it ... uhumm... sorry ;-)

Regards Stefan K

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