Re: [MacPerl] Wish for MacPerl

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

Chris Nandor writes:
|At 13.15 1998.04.08, Andre Leclerc wrote:
|>If I had one wish about changes to MacPerl, it would be the possibility of
|>seeing the line numbers in MacPerl's editor window, so one can spot a line
|>easily when a compiler or syntax error is reported.
|Matthias has said he is not going to put much work into MacPerl's editor
|(although he is going to change the engine to make it better in some key
|ways, but I don't think he will add stuff like line numbers).  BBEdit and
|Alpha and others work well with MacPerl already and have the functionality
|you desire.

Also, if you select the line in the MacPerl window, you can do a command-J
(Jump To... in the Edit menu) and MacPerl will open the file and select
the line the error's on.

|If Matthias decides not to do as you want, though, you can always get the
|source yourself and do it, and maybe submit a patch back to him.

As long as you make it easy to turn off!

Brian

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