Re: [MacPerl] Missing keywords in BBEdit

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 18.27 97/6/3, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>"Brian L. Matthews" <blm@halcyon.com> writes:
>>Nicolas Le Clerc writes:
>>|I suggest that we make a list of the missing keywords in BBEdit's Perl
>>|mode and send it to Bare Bones in the name of the MacPerl mailing list.
>>
>>It's not just a question of missing keywords, it's general perl5 support.
>>In fact, just plain perl support isn't all that hot. $#var and hereis
>>docs don't work at all, it's easy to confuse it about what's in a
>>quoted string and what's not, etc.
>
>Perl is insanely difficult to parse correctly. The only correct parser
>existing is the one in Perl itself.

Correct indeed.  I think I would just be happy if they took existing
support, added Perl5 keywords, and let me assign the coloring to arbitrary
files (that are not named a particular way).  According to Patrick Woolsey
from BB, that is all planned.  BBEdit does a decent job.  To try and do
better would probably be a waste of their time, considering they could not
possibly get it perfect anyway.

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