Re: [Sheflug] Perl Tutorial

[John Beaumont <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 16:20 +0000, Robin Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:21 +0000, Geoff Schrecker wrote:
> > On Jan 28, 2008 6:37 PM, Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > This might interest someone.  It's said that there are mistakes but
> > > for me it was a good introduction to Perl programming.....
> > >
> > > http://youtube.com/user/bermnz
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > Just took a look at the first one, the Perl editor he uses is windows
> > only. What would people suggest for Linux (Ubuntu) or OSX?
> > 
> For want of starting an editor flame war, it has to be vim!
> 
> Robin
> 
> 
> > Cheers Geoff

Hi, just recently joined the list. I'm a Ubuntu Gutsy user from
Rotherham.

I really don't like VIM/VI. It has a very steep learning curve. Anything
that needs a command reference blu-tacked to your wall can't be good.
Nano is the obvious and sensible replacement for sane people. (I know
the old school among us will flame me for this!)

If you're using Gnome then Scite is your best bet. It's highly
configurable, uses GTK2, has great code highlighting, support for
automatic indentation, supports tabs, collapsible code, and there's also
a windows version so you'll never have change editors depending on what
OS your on.

The stock editor gedit included in Ubuntu is also great too.

Thanks, John. 



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