Re^4: I want to save web pages as text rather than as HTML. -- oneliner

I was using Padre and DWIM Perl, following Gabor Szabo's instructions at https://perlmaven.com/installing-perl-and-getting-started

I have just uninstalled DWIM Perl and installed Strawberry Perl 5.30.0.1 (64bit) for Windows into C:\Strawberry on my hard drive.

The README.txt file tells me to run the following commands to manually set some environment variables:

c:\myperl\relocation.pl.bat ... this is REQUIRED!

c:\myperl\update_env.pl.bat ... this is OPTIONAL

When I tried to run c:\Strawberry\relocation.pl.bat I got the error message "The system cannot find the path specified." Hovever, there was a file "relocation.txt" in C:\Strawberry which appeared to run successfully. I can't find any files similar to update_env.pl.bat however.

I liked the convenince of Padre, but don't want to run into more problems due to not being kept up to date. I also have Notepad++. What to you recommend?

Thanks for all your help. I'll probably have more questions later.

Comment on Re^4: I want to save web pages as text rather than as HTML. -- oneliner

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Re^5: I want to save web pages as text rather than as HTML. -- oneliner by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 11, 2019 at 06:59 UTC
I’m really glad people work on Perl on Windows but I don’t have the patience for it. It makes everything harder. I tried Padre way back when it was in a very early version and liked what I saw but as far as IDEs go… I don't care for them. Forced to choose, maybe Atom, or TextMate on Mac, but I am emacs and I would personally only recommend emacs or vim because they are a baseline you can rely on.	[reply]
Re^5: I want to save web pages as text rather than as HTML. -- oneliner by Anonymous Monk on Sep 11, 2019 at 17:25 UTC
Try the free Komodo Edit. It's a really excellent Perl IDE with realtime syntax checking, fast and rich interface, hundreds of options, very pleasant colors, snippets, templates, completion, tidy, reliable backups, perfect restorations, support for about a hundred other languages, and lots more. One of my favorite features: A few seconds after making a typo or other mistake the lines that will be broken by it are underlined in red, and will popup the warning text on mouseover. https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/downloads/edit/	[reply]
Re^6: I want to save web pages as text rather than as HTML. -- oneliner by Anonymous Monk on Sep 19, 2019 at 19:44 UTC
`s/tidy/critic/` Komodo has tidy for html and maybe other langs but afaik not perl. Komodo does have REAL TIME PERL CRITIC from gentle to brutal that underlines issues in yellow and will popup the critique on mouseover. Configure it in preferences > syntax checking > language-specific > Perl.	[reply]