Re: [MacPerl] Perl editor flaw

[Richard Rathe <rrathe@dean.med.ufl.edu>]

On 11/9/97 Chris Nandor wrote:

>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.

Actually, it seems essential for editing droplets and CGIs that hide
scripts in text resources. (Have I missed something?) I enjoy using the
built-in editor and have (happily) learned to live with its foibles. I
think it would be helpful to upgrade the editor, but I see no reason to
expect Matthias to do it. There must be free C/C++ text edit source out
there (I've seen something called WASTE for example.) Some kind C hacker
should volunteer (hint, hint).

Just to keep things in perspective, MacPerl is WAY ahead of the Win95 port
we use. The "development environment" is a DOS prompt. Matthias has done a
great job exploiting the Mac GUI to put a kinder, more intuitive face on
Perl. Hats Off!!

RR

__________________________________________________________________________
  Richard Rathe, MD                       mailto:rrathe@dean.med.ufl.edu
  University of Florida                  http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/  



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