Re: [MacPerl] MCF files, BBEdit extensions

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 9:48 12/13/96, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>In message <v02130504aed70ba9ac04@[206.113.21.246]> you write:
>>At 2:46 12/13/96, oszarazi@cuug.ab.ca wrote:
>>>Is there a pod reader for BBE?  If there is that would be sortof
>>>cool... especially if it worked in combination with the perl filters
>>>and such and if it all ran "smallish".  Otherwise, I'm stuck I guess.
>>>(I didn't see any way to make any info files outta the pods, and don't
>>>know whether the Emacs 18.9 port even runs with my copy of Perl 4.36.)
>>
>>The problem is that BBEdit (Bare Bones Editor) doesn't do text formatting.
>>The best solution, IMO, would be to have an extension that does what
>>command-K does for HTML files and Web browsers; if you hit select the
>>extension it would launch Shuck with the current POD file.
>
>Another alternative attractive might be to package the pod2text script as
>a BBEdit filter, this would allow to read Pod files in BBEdit.

Silly me ... I forgot about that script!  I've used the pod2x translators,
but never the 2text translator, and it totally slipped my mind ...

I just tried it, and it worked without any modifications whatsoever.  Just
drop the pod2text script from the MacPerl distribution in the Perl Filters
folder, open the pod file, select the filter and run it, and bang!  SOMEONE
has been doing some good work around here ...

#================================================================
perl -e 'srand();if(rand>.5){$i=0;foreach(@ARGV){@$i=split(//);$z
[$i]=0;foreach(@$i){$s[$i][$z[$i]]=$_;$z[$i]++;}$i++;}foreach(@s)
{foreach(@$_) {print}print" ";$_++}}else{print(join(" ", @ARGV))}
print"\n"' McClellan Clan Motto: Think On

Chris Nandor                                      pudge@pobox.com
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