Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl and Alpha 7.0

[Lionel Artom-Ginzburg <lionel@bigtime.blank.org>]

>I do most of my perl programming for unix.  I use xemacs for my text 
>editor.  I have been using Alpha's text editor on my Mac because of the 
>similar key bindings to that of emacs.  I recently upgraded to Alpha 7.0 
>and have been unable to use Alpha in Perl mode.  Is their anyone else out 
>their who uses Alpha who has run into the same problem.  I am sure it is 
>just a setup problem, however, I have been unable to find out how to 
>activate perl mode.  I have switched back to version 6.5.2.  I would 
>appreciate any help given.  Also, if anyone knows of a port of xemacs to 
>the Mac could you let me know of that as well.

The only port of emacs to the Mac I'm aware of is of version 18.59, which 
is so old that I'm not sure you'd be interested in it.  It can be found at

http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/

which is also the address of a page devoted to TeX on the Mac that 
includes a good section on the capabilities of various Mac text editors.  
I've futzed around a bit with this MacEMACS, and it's stable, but not 
very fun to use.  (Maybe it's just that I haven't used version 18 in a 
bunch of years, and keep forgetting what features do and don't exist 
under it)

I've noticed some weird behavior in Alpha 7, too.  I've gotten the Perl 
mode to activate (the popup menu at the bottom right of the screen-- it 
defaults to "Text" in red letters-- seems to be more reliable than the 
dragdown menus at the top), but it more than occasionally shuts off, or 
forgets where the MacPerl application is and won't execute scripts from 
the editor  (Part of my problem may be that my MacPerl installation is on 
a removable drive at the moment, and my desktop may be a bit screwy as a 
result). It's definitely not as stable as 6.52,  and loads much more 
slowly. I'm hoping that he updates it soon-- if he does, I'll register 
it, no question.  As good a product as I've been told BBEdit is, I just 
can't justify spending more for a text editor than I did on my word 
processor!

Lionel





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