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Re: .pl suffix (was: [MacPerl] open() misfeature? )
At 19.44 +0100 97-02-22, Peter Whaite wrote:
>Chris Nandor said:
>> At 23.14 97/2/21, Jeff Keys wrote:
>> >If you go into 'function popups' in BBEdit Preferences, you can add other
>> >extensions for any of the languages it parses. You can add .cgi, .pm, .lib
>> >or whatever for perl.
>>
>> But you can't tell it to do anything to an extension-less filename.
>
>I wish all these other editors would standardise the emacs local-variables
>block embedded in comments towards the end of a file, e.g. at the end of any
>perl file put...
>
># Local Variables:
># mode: perl
># End:
>
>...to tell the editor to use perl mode for editing, highlighting, etc...
There is another, shorter way to do it too:
#!perl5 -w
# - * - perl - * -
Pretty good and easy to implement. Doesn't care about filename extensions
or what program to execute the file with.
Sam
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