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Re: [MacPerl] open() misfeature?
At 21.48 97/2/21, John W Baxter wrote:
>At 13:34 -0500 2/21/97, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>>BTW, Perl scripts should not have a .pl suffix. Only perl4 library files
>>>should
>>>be written with a .pl suffix.
>>
>>Then how would BBEdit know how to color the text? :-)
>
>Well, Emacs elects to figure it out based on the !# line. (And it's
>particular...when we were running both 4 and an early unhappy 5, !# lines
>which pointed to !#.../perl5 caused Emacs to use Fundamental, not Perl
>mode.)
Aha, but Perl scripts in MacPerl do not require the shebang line ...
But actually, I do wish that BBEdit would work that way. When I open a
MacPerl script TO BBEdit, its name is "script.pl [MacPerl]", which
obviously doesn't work unless you change the preferences.
I'll write to BBEdit and get their thoughts on it.
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