Dear monks and mongers, no big show here, but me and my friends started an editor for perl, written 100% in perl, crossplatform via Wx and licensed under GPL and free in beer as in speech. If you like to support it, check my sig and try out 0.3 RC 1 for testing. its still a small editor with some nifty features, to be someday, with gods help, a full flegded IDE for the whole community. the best part is the ability to extend with your dirty little scripts. its called PCE but we searching still for final name.

UPDATE RC3 is out

New features: bracelight, auto indention, display selection size, brace indent and dedent
my pce at http://proton-ce.sourceforge.net
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Re: A lovely (soon crossplatform) Perl editor.
by TedPride (Priest) on Jun 20, 2005 at 18:09 UTC
    Sadly, PCP is taken. You need a catchy name tho - how about PEE? Perl Editor Extraordinaire :)
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      No one else probably has taken that one, so urine luck!

      --
      We're looking for people in ATL

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Re: A lovely (soon crossplatform) Perl editor.
by TedPride (Priest) on Jun 20, 2005 at 21:19 UTC
    Actually, that's taken too. Perl Embedding Engine. Maybe you can switch the C and the E and get PEC. "I flex my PECs and pump out the code!"
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      thank you guys, but it should have some spiritual meaning. im looking for a name long time and would like to find it till OSCON this year.
      my pce at http://proton-ce.sourceforge.net
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Re: A lovely (soon crossplatform) Perl editor.
by Ultra (Hermit) on Jun 21, 2005 at 10:38 UTC
    sir_lichtkind++

    On the other hand, what's that crossplatform about it? I see only w32 builds there. (nice pics there)

    Also, I've managed to download a .zip archive (and had the unpleasant surprise to unpack and spread through my entire /home directory) but found no instruction about installation, build, prerequisites and so on.... which makes it difficult for us mere mortals lacking the "goodies" (*grin*) of win32 to test it.

    However, I'm looking forward to see a *NIX build soon :-)

    UPDATE: I have managed to start it on a GNU/Linux box, but it segfaults when I close it.
    You can count me in when you will test it on *NIX.
    Dodge This!
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      yes exactly, because this big bug and the HDD crash of my gentoo box (still in repair mode) is the initial linux release delayed but its very high on my todo and wanja said me he want fix that soon, so chances are good.

      yes i said soon crossplatform till its planned to be so. our mac-man retired so I still looking for a new one. but there is a working example on mac too look at test releases, there you will find an older version which has also less problems on linux i think.

      the current linux dev version has an so called installer which tells you what modules are missing for pce, but i definitly want to have some installer which grab all you missed from CPAN. any volunteers? ok i will it also distribute als tar.gz so you can feel home too
      my pce at http://proton-ce.sourceforge.net
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Re: A lovely (soon crossplatform) Perl editor.
by holli (Abbot) on Jun 21, 2005 at 22:38 UTC
    When I find a bug, will I get a free licence too? ;-)


    holli, /regexed monk/
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      haha good joke but currently there are more bugs than user so it wouldnt pay out in any way. But there will be no BSD license, just GPL. ;()

      But join us if you like.
      my pce at http://proton-ce.sourceforge.net
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Re: A lovely (soon crossplatform) Perl editor.
by NateTut (Deacon) on Jun 21, 2005 at 15:25 UTC
    Nice job! Does it have a "column copy" utility? I couldn't find it in my quick peruse of the on-line help.
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        I'm still pretty unfamiliar with your editor, but I think the "alt-key" is not what I mean.

        Think of a block of text like this:

        a1b2c1d1e1
        a2b2c2d2e2
        a3b3c3d3e3

        I want to be able to make a selection like:

        c1
        c2
        c3

        No matter what is in the columns selected. Does this help you to understand?

        BTW your English is much better than my German!
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