Re: [MacPerl] using BBedit Lite as a script editor

[Alex Satrapa <packrat@blitzen.canberra.edu.au>]

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At 02:56 +1100 on 5/2/98, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>According to Bart Lateur:
>>
>> I can't make the combination MacPerl + BBEdit Lite work for
me. I can
>> use the menu in MacPerl to edit a script, but then I'm stuck.
There's no
>> way I get the edited changes back into MacPerl (other than
copy /
>> paste).
>
>You are going about it backwards.  :-)
>
>Bring up MacPerl.  Then bring up BBEDit.  Edit the program
>using BBEdit.  There are a set of plug-ins for BBEdit which
>will move the program over to MacPerl, run it, and return
>the output back to you.

This may work fine with BBEdit 4.x, but AFAIK, it won't work
properly with BBEdit Lite. BBEdit Lite is *just* a text editor.
It doesn't support the full version features such as syntax
colourisation and AppleEvents. So MacPerl can send AE's to
BBEdit Lite all it wants to... but nothing will happen.

My usual method is to open the document in BBEdit Lite, edit and
save (leaving the document open), then either use the plugin to
tell MacPerl to Syntax Check/Run the program, or switch over to
MacPerl and run the program from there. It's slightly more
cumbersome than the commercial version, but that's the price you
pay for being a cheapskate ;)  I keep promising the guys at Bare
Bones software that "I'm buying the full version tomorrow"...
however, that will mean trying to find a CD ROM from which to
load the full version onto my decrepit old LCIII or PB 180.
Perhaps I can mount the HFS volume on my Linux box and share it
using netatalk like I share my website...

You people out there running PowerMac 8300's with 128Mb RAM and
multi-GB hard drives with multi-spin CDROMS and 17" monitors
tend to forget the paupers like me who are stuck with 1990's
technology :) When I get a spare $10,000 to play with, I'll be
there with you.

Thankyou, Matthias, for going to the trouble of maintaining a
68k version of MacPerl that still runs on MacOS versions lower
than 8 :)

Regards,
Alex Satrapa
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