Re: [MacPerl] buffer size of "MacPerl" window

[Tom Holub <tom_holub@ls.berkeley.edu>]

At 2:59 PM -0400 8/27/96, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 4:00 PM 8/27/96, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>>blisbarn@i-max.co.nz (Matt & Sheryl) writes:
>>>after reading a file into the "MacPerl" window of MacPerl and then saving
>>>it through an applescript i discovered that the top part of the file was
>>>missing.
>>>
>>>i presume that this is because the buffer size of the window in question
>>>has been reached and MacPerl automatically deletes lines off of the top.
>>
>>Right.
>>
>>>does anyone know how to increase the buffer size of the "MacPerl" window?
>>
>>The current size is 30'000 characters. If it were easy to increase it, there
>>wouldn't have been a need for a limit in the first place :-)
>>
>>TextEdit is limited to 32767 characters. In another program, I just started
>>using (limitless) WASTE with excellent results, so switching over would be an
>>option (WASTE is reported to also handle Kanij, and soon right-to-left
>>scripts). However, I don't really have much tim to spend on it.
>
>What about just having an option to redirect the ouput to another program
>(like BBEdit)?  Actually, right now the output IS redirected to BBEdit if
>running the script using the "Run Perl" BBEdit Extension, isn't it?

Looking ahead to the next wave of application design, wouldn't it be
awesome for MacPerl to be OpenDoc compliant?  OpenDoc implements the
equivalent of input and output streams, which would make a number of things
easier for MacPerl.  Data in OpenDoc documents would become easy to use
with MacPerl.  And, MacPerl could just ignore the editor problem and let
people use whatever OpenDoc-compliant editor they like.

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