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ActiveState Komodo
ActiveState's Komodo: Full-featured, multi-language IDE for Linux and Windows

ActiveState's Visual Perl
Perl development environment plug-in for Visual Studio .NET

BBEdit
A Macintosh editor that supports multiple languages including Perl. By adding Brad Hanson's BBEdit Plug-Ins you can run your Perl scripts right in BBEdit.

DzSoft Perl Editor
DzSoft Perl Editor is a Windows-based tool for writing, editing, and debugging Perl CGI scripts. It has a comfortable and intuitive interfaceboth for beginners and advanced programmers. DzSoft Perl Editor is deceptively simple, but it is really a very powerful tool.

ED for Windows
ED leads the way in intelligent language sensitive editing. Supporting both DOS and Windows, ED is as easy to use as it is to spell. Up and running straight out of the box for the new user but highly configurable, ED fits the way YOU want to work. Includes support for Perl syntax highlighting.

EditPlus
EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit text editor for Windows 95/1998 and NT 4.0. It is not only a good replacement for Notepad, but also it has much more powerful features for HTML, Perl, C/C++ and Java.

Emacs::Lisp 0.3 and emacs-20.2 patch
A patch for GNU Emacs 20.2 to embed Perl 5.004. Includes module Emacs::Lisp.

Epsilon Programmer's Editor
Lugaru's Epsilon Programmer's Editor features EMACS-style, Brief-style, and CUA key bindings, language modes for C/C++/Java/C#, Perl, Visual Basic, HTML, XML, TeX, PHP, Python, Tcl, GAMS, and many others, concurrent process buffers, smart syntax highlighting, asynchronous Internet support, smart indenting & tags, and multi-file, multi-directory search & replace. Plus full undo/redo, hex mode, Unicode support and conversions, directory-spanning file patterns, completion for commands, filenames and other names, convenient keyboard macros, interactive customizability, and much more.

NEdit
NEdit is a GUI style plain-text editor that supports Perl syntax highlighting for X/Motif systems. It is very easy to use, especially for those familiar with the Macintosh or MS Windows style of interface, combining full use of the mouse and window manager, with keystroke efficiency and a full complement of powerful editing commands.

Nvi
Nvi is an implementation of the ex/vi text editor originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California, Berkeley. Nvi provides the ability to run Perl programs from within nvi and provides access to the files being edited and some internal data.

Perl Builder
Perl Builder is a complete, integrated development environment (IDE) for Perl. Whether you are an experienced Perl developer or a non-programmer who needs to create Perl CGI scripts, Perl Builder's visual tools are guaranteed to dramatically improve your productivity! Perl Builder is a 32-bit application and requires Windows 95 or NT.

Perl code editing commands for GNU EMACS
If you're using GNU EMACS to edit Perl code, you should grab the Perl code editing commands, or cperl-mode, another perl mode for GNU EMACS.

Perl Scripting Tool
PST was intended as a replacement for Windows' Notepad, which until now has been the editor of choice for Win32 PERL Programmers. While Notepad is usually sufficient there has long been the need for something with 'just a little more'. This simple editor is Notepad with a few extra options for PERL script authoring, including a subroutine library, code wizard, run, debug, syntax check, floating toolbox and more. An extremely simple and straight-forward PERL GUI.

TextPad
TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It is Windows hosted, and comes in 16 and 32-bit editions, and supports Perl syntax highlighting. Huge files can be edited by either - just choose the edition that works best with your PC. The 32-bit edition can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1 with Win32s extensions.

UltraEdit
UltraEdit is a disk based editor with a 16-Bit version for Windows 3.x and a 32-Bit version for Windows NT and Windows 95 (not Win32s). It includes bazillions of features including a Perl wordfile for Perl syntax highlighting.

vile
The "VI Like Emacs" editor now contains an embedded Perl interpreter so that Perl can be used as an extension language. It runs in both GUI and terminal modes, has customizable syntax highlighting, multiple windows/buffers, highlighted cut-and-paste, and many other features. Runs on many common platforms.

VIM
The "Vi IMproved" editor -- Now with Perl support. VIM provides Perl syntax highlighting, and a Perl interface. The Perl interface provides the ability to run a Perl command or run a Perl command for each line in a range. For more information on Perl support, see the Perl and VIM help page.

Visual SlickEdit
Visual SlickEdit combines the richest set of powerful editing features with more configurability than any software product in any category. Visual SlickEdit is multi-platform, highly extensible, and fast -- Includes language color-coding extention for Perl.