General Preferences

Preferences...

Click on Perl EPIC to open the General Preferences page.

General preferences include the location of the Perl interpreter, the option to enable warnings, taint mode and the interval of the source validation.

The validation interval indicates when to start validation after the editor becomes idle.

Apart from the standard interpreter type, the type can be switched to Cygwin. In this case the @INC path is mapped to be Cygwin compliant.

The two debugger-related preferences work as follows:

Note

On slower systems it might be useful to disable automatic syntax validation. Syntax validation is still possible by using the Shift+F5 function key.