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IDEs

Padre - the Perl IDE

Padre is a cross-platform, open-source, free, IDE for Perl, written in Perl, and which is under active development. It's probably the most recommended for most people who don't have a previous preference.

Screenshot of Padre

Padre, an IDE for Perl written in Perl.

Komodo Edit and Komodo IDE

Komodo Edit is a cross-platform, costless, open-source, editor for Perl, and other dynamic languages by ActiveState. Komodo IDE is a commercially-enhanced version of it which is not open-source and costs money.

EPIC - Perl Editor and IDE for Eclipse

EPIC is a set of plugins for the Eclipse Java-based IDE that allows one to edit and manage Perl projects. Eclipse is cross-platform, free and open-source, and so is EPIC.

Screenshot of Eclipse's Perl Mode

Epic, a Perl Editor and IDE based on Eclipse.

Perl 5 Support Plugin (Camelcade) for IntelliJ IDEA

A plugin that adds Perl 5 support for IntelliJ IDEA and other JetBrains products.

Vim

Vim is a popular open-source, cross-platform, and free editor, with good support for editing Perl code. the Perl 5 Wiki page about Vim contains more information.

By default Vim behaves very much like the ubiquitous UNIX editor vi, which may seem foreign to people used to the conventions of modern desktop environments. However, using mswin.vim it can behave much more like Windows-based editors.

Screenshot of gvim (Vim-X11)

Vim, a sophisticated cross-platform text-editor.

TextMate, E Text Editor and E Text Editor for Linux/UNIX

TextMate is a commercial (but now open source under the GPL version 3) programmers' text editor that has become popular on Mac OS X, and E Text Editor is a commercial version of it for Windows, with source available for compiling on Linux and other systems.

Other Lists

These are other lists of prominent or notable IDEs - not all of them are Perl-oriented.

Helper Tools

Perl::Critic

Perl::Critic is a Perl module (and a free web-service) that analyses one's Perl code and warns about possible bad practices that should be fixed.

perltidy

perltidy

perltidy is an auto-formatter for Perl code, that can keep its style consistent. It supports many different styles and style parameters. Perltidy has a frontend called tidyview that allows one to visually customise the style and view the results.

Graphical Debugger Front-ends

While not full-fledged IDEs, these tools are useful as graphical debugger front-ends.

  • Devel-ptkdb - a Perl/Tk based graphical debugger. Was not maintained since 2004, but may still get the job done.

  • GNU DDD (The Data Display Debugger) - a Motif-based graphical front-end to several debuggers including the perl debugger.

  • perldbgui - another Perl/Tk GUI for the Perl debugger. Stuck at DR-1.

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