Padre

Padre is a Perl IDE, an integrated development environment, or in other words 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 plug-in 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 for many languages and visual editor effects
• Syntax checking for Perl 5 and Perl 6
• Refactoring tools for Perl 5 and Perl 6
• Context sensitive help and code completion
• Beginner-friendly
• Extra features for advanced programmers
• Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
• Free and Open Source under the "Perl license"
• Written in Perl 5
• ... list of features