I don't know any tool that does syntactical hilighting. What they do is lexical hilighting when this is possible, that is when tokenization is orthogonal with parsing. A real tool will have to hook to the Perl parsing engine to do a decent job in all cases. More generally I don't know of any litterate development environment in the Open Source world. We still use age old tool like emacs and vi which is a sure sign how backward we are.

BTW:I am told that MS-Visual tool are far mode advanced.

This is very odd because litterate tools would fit more naturally in Open Source world than in a closed one.

-- stefp -- check out Nemo

In reply to Re: Re: Perl Programming Tools - (who, what, where, when, and why) by stefp
in thread Perl Programming Tools - (who, what, where, when, and why) by diakonos

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