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Re: [MacPerl] Perl editor flaw



[Yes, I'm back from the land of the geschmelzte Maultaschen]

pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) writes:
>At 10.48 11/9/97, Dick Karpinski wrote:
>>Not that it's a problem for me, but I see that when I have an editor
>>window open in Perl, and the text extends past the right edge of the
>>window, the horizontal scroll bar is present but grayed out.  
[...]
>You should upgrade to 5.1.4r4, been released a few weeks now.  But no, no
>changes in the editor are planned.  Use freeware Alpha or BBEdit Lite or
>the payware BBEdit for a good text editor.  Matthias has stated he simply
>has no time, desire, or other inclination to improve the text editor, as
>most people do not use it much anyway.  :-)

While Chris has indeed stated my general policy correctly, I have actually
fixed this particular misfeature a few days ago, as this was simple to do and
I could not remember anymore why it was there in the first place.

Matthias

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