Padre, the Perl IDE
Padre is a Perl IDE, an Integrated Development environment, or in short a text editor that is simple to use for new Perl programmers but also supports large multi-lingual and multi-technology projects.
Our primary focus is to create a peerless environment for learning Perl and creating Perl scripts, modules and distributions, with an extensible plugin system to support the addition of related functionality and languages and to support advanced developers taking the editor anywhere they want it to go.
Features
- Customizable syntax highlighting of many languages
- Syntax checking for Perl 5 and Perl 6
- Refactoring tools for Perl 5 and Perl 6
- Context sensitive help
- Multi-platform: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
- Special features for beginners
- Extra features for advanced programmers
- Free and Open Source under the "Perl license"
- Written in Perl 5
- ... list of features

