Re: Creating Perl5 plugin for Intellij IDEA

I think there's an issue with your statement about there being no vim for Windows. Namely, that it is available right on vim.org for anyone to download and install. There's an alternate source at https://bitbucket.org/Haroogan/vim-for-windows too. See also http://gvim.en.softonic.com/, portable gvim, and the download page for Cream which is vim plus some bonus niceties.

There are also several ways to run Emacs on Windows.

Elvis is another vi clone available on the Mac, Windows, DOS, and OS/2 as well. jVi runs anywhere you have a JVM and NetBeans. vile has a Windows version.

I imagine Zee (simple editor), Zemacs (an Emacs), and Zi (a vi) would run on Windows if you squared away your Lua installation on that platform to support Zile.

As for other non-vi, non-emacs free (libre and gratis) text editors and IDEs, the granddaddy of them all appears to be Eclipse. There are lots of things out there, though, that run on Windows as well as other platforms.:

jEdit runs on Java on Windows as well as it does on Java on other platforms.
Atom is neat and appears to be gaining popularity. It can import TextMate grammars and themes in case you have any investment in TM.
Bluefish runs on Windows and several other OSes.
Komodo Edit is the libre and gratis editor component of the fuller-featured Komodo IDE.
The KDE on Windows folks will let you install Kate and its prerequisites (or more of the KDE tools, too if you want) on Windows.
fte runs on multiple platforms, including Windows.
MinEd has a pre-packaged Windows version, too.
JED comes ready to be configured for a number of popular key binding sets from other editors. Happily, it's reported to run on Windows without Cygwin. Sadly, I don't seem to be able to find a prebuilt package.

If you have Msys Git, MSys (another page on how install MSYS tools) or GNU tools for Windows there's a decent chance of getting your Linux/Unix console text editor of choice to run fine. With Cygwin there's a very good chance most Linux/Unix console text editors would work fine without much work.

There are non-free (not libre, not gratis) options like UltraEdit and TextPad.

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Re^2: Creating Perl5 plugin for Intellij IDEA by hurricup (Pilgrim) on Apr 21, 2015 at 04:11 UTC
Again, I want IDE. Not editor with autocomplete from Webster's dictionary and syntax highlighting.	[reply]
Re^3: Creating Perl5 plugin for Intellij IDEA by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Apr 21, 2015 at 16:11 UTC
If Eclipse hasn't enough features for you, then you need to think really hard about what exactly it is you want.	[reply]
Re^4: Creating Perl5 plugin for Intellij IDEA by hurricup (Pilgrim) on Apr 22, 2015 at 05:46 UTC
I'll check it again and tell you what I don't like P.S. Checked one article in Russian, from JavaDev perspective: IDEA understands code context and your autocomplete and refactoring works much better. As a result: you can write better and faster. P.P.S. I remembered. last time Eclipse failed to install EPIC on my work computer with some XML error. couldn't figure out what is wrong. Now EPIC installed, trying to create project for our website and getting error. Not sure I'll continue to try to create project. I don't know is it problem of EPIC or Eclipse or my machine. Just know that i never had such problems with IDEA.	[reply]
Re^5: Creating Perl5 plugin for Intellij IDEA by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Apr 22, 2015 at 17:02 UTC