Re: [MacPerl] BBEdit FYI

[John Mignault <mignault@nytimes.com>]

At 7:47 AM -0500 2/26/97, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>From a BareBones Software guy.  I inquired about color syntaxing as regards
>to Perl5 and extension-less files:
>
>#We intend to support Perl 5 for the next major version (please note --
>#no timing or other implications here). As regards extensions, we will
>#probably add an option which will allow (an/all) unnamed file(s) to have
>#a specific language association, but I am not sure that we will be able
>#to resort to such content parsing for the next go-round. Longer term,
>#this is certainly possible. Will see what we can do.
>
But unless I'm missing something here, they already support the unnamed
file association in Prefs under "Function Popup," the problem being that
it's a one-size fits all approach - *any* unnamed buffer gets that language
coloring until you save it with an extension, whereas Alpha'll let you flip
modes from the bottom status bar widget.

Maybe I'll write them again - IMHO this tying to filename extensions (and
on disk, no less - it'd be another thing if you could open a new named
buffer, as in the emacsen, thus getting syntax coloring without an
associated disk file. I tried this, opening a window and naming it from a
script. No joy.) is a major oversight in the editor. I'd much rather be
able to flip it from a palette, or better yet, have it be scriptable.


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John

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John Mignault
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The New York Times
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