Re: [MacPerl] Bbedit as a text editor?

[Michael Kearney <violet@westol.com>]

[...]
> In an ideal world, the two [BBEdit & MacPerl] would be more 
> tightly integrated, so that you could see MacPerl's error messages come 
> up in a BBEdit browser window (as they do when you're using Think C 
> or MetroWerks + ClickWarrior, for example). In a *really* ideal world, 
> not only would there be no war, poverty, famine, or rap music, but 
> MacPerl would be 'just another language' as far as BBEdit is 
> concerned, and would be treated just like BBEdit treats the 
> CodeWarrior IDE or the TPM. I'm uncertain how much work is required 
> by Matthias and/or Rich Siegel for this dream to become a reality. 
[...]

I mentioned this to BareBones Software recently while suggesting ways that 
BBEdit could be improved as a WWW development tool. Here's the reply I 
received on the issue:

> >What about being able to tie BBEdit into MacPerl for over-the-top 
> >text parsing and manipulation macros? 
>  
>  
> As you might expect, we have gotten a decent number of inquiries on 
> this account. Basically, our position is that instead of trying to 
> add specific support for every possible external environment, we 
> are trying to improve BBEdit's OSA support to channel such 
> interactions through in a more standard fashion. This of course means 
> that we are counting on MacPerl becoming OSA-compliant in order 
> to facilitate integration with BBEdit (and other things). I know 
> that Matthias Neeracher has said that he intends for this to happen, 
> but do not know the current state of affairs. Should ping him again... 
>  
> BTW, along related lines, if you know or are willing to learn 
> Frontier, please take a look at the BBEdit Web Scripting Site 
>  
>     <http://www.scripting.com/bbedit/>. 
>  
> for some interesting new site development tools. 
>  
>  
>  Patrick Woolsey  /  Director of Technical Services 
> -- 
> Bare Bones Software, Inc.                  E-mail: support@
> barebones.com P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048               
> Fax: +1 508 651 7584 WWW:  http://www.bareb
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Michael Kearney


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