On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 12:42, David Turner wrote: > I was wondering what people develop perl in using linux. I am running > KDE 3.1 on 2.6.0, and have come from a windoze background, where I use > open perl IDE. I like the ability to step through code a line at a time.
IANAPHOEU (I am not a perl hacker or emacs user) but I just loaded a perl script in xemacs, it gave me a Perl menu which includes a "Debugger" item. After clicking it, I had to change the command line to perl -d /perl/filename.pl but once I did that I was able to press 's' to step through each line of code. It also automatically switched to a split pane view showing the debugger and the source file (with an arrow indicating which line in the code was being executed) > I am hoping there is something similiar; that is relatively simple so i > can concentrate on learning perl, rather than having to learn emacs or > some other complicated text editor. Is there a generic linux IDE? This > is for home use, so i wont be able to spend any money on a comercial > package. (eg komodo) I am guessing that emacs/vim are the generic linux ide's. I personally use vim, and rarely do much programming that can't be debugged with psuedo-unit testing (when doing python) or testing + gdb (when doing C) so my "i"de is a collection of xterms. (though I'll confess that recent generations of gedit+syntax highlighting have been pulling me in more and more) One thing you might want to consider is that vi/emacs have been around for a looong time, so there is probably something there that's worth the learning curve... for more help though, you might want to specify which other features you're looking for. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
