Padre, the Perl IDE

Padre is a Perl IDE, an integrated development environment, a simple yet powerful text editor written in Perl.

Our primary focus is to create a environment for learning and development, with an extensible plug-in system to support additional functionality.

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Features

  • Customizable syntax highlighting
  • Context sensitive help
  • Code completion
  • Refactoring tools
  • Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
  • Free and Open Source
  • Written in Perl

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Documentation

  • Step-by-step howtos
  • POD documentation
  • Most important features
  • Padre plugin API

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Get involved

We encourage participation of all kinds.

There's tons of simple things you can do even if you don't have much time!

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