The most ubiquitous editor with the most features and extensibility has to be emacs. Crank emacs up and run the tutorial.

However, it is handy to be very proficient at VI's editing mode, for speed of coding. M-x viper-mode (you will understand what that means after reading the emacs tutorial) will give you VI editing keys but will also do things like highlighting regions you are changing, which is useful.

Turn on syntax highlighting with M-x global-font-lock-mode and see how perl code looks.

Eventually you're going to need to replace the default perl-mode with one that works properly (Perl is a very hard language to parse, so the editing modes rarely get it right). Grab a recent copy of cperl-mode from CPAN, and set that up.

Don't listen to the fools that are trying to entice you to Debian. It's like smack, once you try it you can never stop using it, no matter how much it is ruining your life!

In reply to Re: Setting up a 'Perl Development Environment' by mugwumpjism
in thread Setting up a 'Perl Development Environment' by nysus

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