Re: [MacPerl] Missing keywords in BBEdit

[Nicolas Le Clerc <nleclerc@pobox.com>]

At 7:57 PM -0400 6/3/97, Chris Nandor wrote:

> >>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.

I only had in mind asking them to fix the most annoying problems, I
don't expect them to spend the time required to make it perfect.

I have the impression that BB is late on Bluto; this will certainly
delay any new release of BBEdit. Has anyone got some information on
their schedule?

Nicolas

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