Greetings once again, most venerated ones,

I seem to have uncovered a shortfall in Eclipse/E-P-I-C and wondered if any fellow monks might be able to shed some light on it ...

Up until now I've been developing bespoke modules using h2xs, together with (g)vim, on the CLI. Lately, however, I've heard &/or read many glowing (admittedly, few perl orientated) reviews of the Eclipse environment and the E-P-I-C plugin, so I thought I'd give 'em a try.

I downloaded and installed, Eclipse and the E-P-I-C plugin (http://www.epic-ide.org/index.php) and started trying to use it/them to develop a couple of scripts I was working on.

Eventually, I realised that I had been more productive using (g)vim, so I downloaded and installed the vim Eclipse plugin (http://vimplugin.org/) - but to no avail - no vim capability.

Worse was to follow when I tried to use the IDE to develop a new module - I couldn't see any way of incorporating/embedding h2xs to start a new perl 'project' - and IMO Module::Starter just doesn't cut the mustard.

The big question is (for me anyway), is it me ... or was I really better off with h2xs, (g)vim and a command line prompt ?

Sits back once more to await flames ...

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

In reply to Is this a useful perl IDE I see before me ? by Bloodnok

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