Two alternatives for editing Web-APP files

Back in April of last year I submitted an article about Geany script editor.  There are many different alternatives for editing the core files for Web-APP Content Management System.  Here I would like to highlight two others in particular.

If you’re a Windows user and looking for an alternative to Window’s default Notepad, you might want to check out these two text editors: “PerlEdit” or “Notepad++”.

PerlEdit

From IndigoStar’s about page: “PerlEdit is an IDE for Perl and a general-purpose text editor.  It includes a source code text editor with syntax highlighting and a visual debugger. It is fast and lightweight with a download size of less than 2 MB.  PerlEdit is multi-platform  and currently supports Windows and Linux.”

I have tried PerlEdit with Linux, Windows XP and 7 and found it simple to use.

Recently added features: Transparently edit files located on a remote machine using FTP.  Search and replace uses Perl regular expressions.  Recent file history, Goto subroutine function, line number display, uses Fixed font on Linux by default.  Syntax highlighting now understands single line comments and strings.

You can download it from this page which also provides additional details concerning other features.  PerlEdit is free for personal non-commercial use.  Note that there are differences between free, lite, pro, and trial versions.  Check the bottom of the page for more information.

Notepad++

If PerlEdit isn’t for you, and you would prefer to have a general, all purpose text editor (besides notepad or GNU-Text), be sure to check out Notepad++ (plus plus).  It’s a free source code editor and notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.  Notepadd++ is available in many different languages and can easily be translated.

Great Perl editor for Web-APP

Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It is using only the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run Geany.

Geany makes a great Perl editor for Web-APP.  {Read more here}

Web-APP, always free

The Web-APP Content Management System and Portal includes translations in various languages in order to make Web-APP available for use on an international scale.

Web-APP is released under GNU-GPL and has always been free. Whether your Web-APP site is commercial, non-profit or for hobby purposes, there are never any fees charged for community support.

History of Web-APP

The Web-APP project was started in 2001 by WebAPP’s founder, Carter Brown, and was based at Carter’s own personal home page website. The founding group came up with the name “Web-APP” (or “WebAPP” for short), an acronym for “Web Automated Perl Portal“.

The group came up with a beginning design and a code base for the script which was originally based on PoAS (Perl on all Site) by Luckie Aria Argathama, which was in turn based on YaWPS (Yet another Web Portal System) by Adrian Heissler. In early 2002 web-app.org was created to host the project. In November of 2006, Carter ran out of time for WebAPP and passed the project over to Jos Brown, a major contributor since May 2004, long term Project Manager, and maintainer of the web-app.org website during all uptime since February 2005.

Jos and the rest of the Web-APP group intend to carry forth Web-APP’s legacy as an Open Source Perl project with a simple coding style that is easy to work with for Perl beginners and experts alike. We hope to continue development of the WebAPP project and the Web-APP community in this manner for long into the future, to help build WebAPP into its fullest potential as a full featured Perl Web Portal system.

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DzSoft Perl Editor 5.8.4.7

DzSoft Perl Editor is a tool for writing, editing, and debugging Perl/CGI scripts. It has a comfortable and intuitive interface both for beginners and advanced programmers.

DzSoft Perl Editor is deceptively simple, but it is really a very powerful tool. Has Code Explorer, very comfortable editor with syntax highlighting, syntax check, easy to use breakpoints with variables watch and many other things for easy and comfortable Perl development.

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