Well, the classic editor is gedi or gedi-lite 

perl -MTk -e " tkinit->TextEdit->pack; MainLoop "

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or 
perl -MTk -e " tkinit->Scrolled( q/TextEdit/ )->pack; MainLoop "

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but its broke :)

update: still broke since 2005 , yuck, Bug #13807 for Tk: Bug in getOpenFile/getSaveFile

http://search.cpan.org/src/SREZIC/Tk-804.030/Tk/TextEdit.pm

http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-804.030/pod/TextUndo.pod 

perl -MTk -e " my $te = tkinit->Scrolled( q/TextUndo/ )->pack; $te->Lo
+ad( q/filename/ ); MainLoop "

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As usual, there is also example in the widget demo, widget - Demonstration of Perl/Tk widgets

In reply to Re: Perl tk - open file and print content by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl tk - open file and print content by Giorgio C

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