From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 0:31:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-227.telepath.com [216.14.0.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74C6937B42C for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 70581 invoked by uid 100); 22 Sep 2000 07:31:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14795.2789.150810.205425@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:31:49 -0500 (CDT) To: "Erin" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl/cgi Authorintg tools In-Reply-To: <35601829@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erin writes: > I am getting tired of using notepad and vi to do > my authoring and editing of all my perl and .cgi > scripts. > > I have a 1500+ line perl script that has minor > problems originating between the keyboard and > the chair. It geting to be hard to track down > these minor errors with notepad and/or vi. > > What else is there? IDLE (/usr/ports/devel/idle) is nice, but you have to give up Perl for Python. On the other hand, there are lots of good reasons for doing that *other* than idle; 1500 line perl scripts being one of them :-). More seriously, you should ask this question on a perl list. Look around www.perl.org for help. You might also try doing "man perldebug" if you're not familiar with the perl debugger.