Re: [MacPerl] Experimental External Editor Interface available

[Brad Hanson <bhanson@avalon.net>]

John Blackburn wrote:
> Matthias writes:
> : >There's a BBEdit menu in the MacPerl application, and I can open a file,
> : >but I can't compile or run from BBEdit, nor can I run the BBEdit script
> : >from MacPerl without a separate Open... dialog.
> : 
> : Right. All of these belong in the BBEdit package (anyone willing to do it?
> : Otherwise I can do it myself).
> 
> There's one there already, i.e. a BBEdit extension that lets you execute the
> Perl being edited in MacPerl, so BBEdit can act as an external editor. Works
> fine for me with MacPerl 5.0.5r1m. It's in the 'Contributed BBEdit
> Extensions' on the BBEdit 4.0 CD. There's no other info about where else it
> could be found in the notes (copied below) . But I can't imagine any Perl
> programmers not having upgraded BBEdit to version 4.0 - the Perl-savvy syntax
> colouring alone makes it a very worthwhile upgrade.

This extension is available in the Info-Mac Archive as
    /info-mac/text/bbe/run-perl-script.hqx

The Info-Mac Archive home page is <http://www.pht.com/info-mac/>

Brad Hanson
bhanson@avalon.net