[MacPerl] Re: Comment from barebones about BBEdit and MacPerl

[John Springer <springer@scruznet.com>]

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>Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 15:54:10 -0400
>To: John Springer <springer@scruznet.com>
>From: Bare Bones Software Tech Support <support@barebones.com>
>Subject: Re: Comment from Matthias (author of MacPerl)
>
>[...]
>>What I'd like is three things, I think:
>>      # A set of MacPerl tools, kind of like Lindsay Davies' HTML Tools,
>>especially something to insert subroutines and library routines with their
>>arguments.
>
>This may happen at some point, but we have no immediate plans to implement
>such a set of extensions. They should be fairly easy for experienced Perl
>users to produce, however, as we supply all the extension interface info
>and examples in the BBEdit Extensions SDK. If you know anyone who is
>interested, please point them in our direction :-).
>
>>      # BBEdit to understand Perl syntax and conventions, like it already
>>does for C, MPW, HTML, etc. Actually it seems to already recognize a lot,
>>but I suppose that's because it thinks it's c.
>
>BBEdit already supports Perl code in the function browser and for syntax
>coloring; check out the 'Function Popup' section of the Preferences and
>appropriate section of the user manual for details.
>
>>      # MacPerl to understand that the script it's supposed to run is in
>>the front BBEdit window.  (It's fine to save before running, just like you
>>save before previewing in HTML).
>
>This may now be possible, but needs to be coordinated between Matthias and
>us...
>hopefully will have some bandwidth to do this in the reasonably near future.
>
>Thanks for your comments.
>
>
>Regards,
>
> Patrick Woolsey  /  Director of Technical Services
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-->John Springer    <http://www.scruznet.com/~springer>
        Still the Penultimate Mac bigot.