Re: [MacPerl] Editors

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

Just for clarification for those who care.

At 08.16 -0400 1998.07.28, Jay Bedsole wrote:
>Not true. Alpha can work this way too. I have confirmed this.
>However Alpha also is MacPerl aware in such a way that it can
>launch MacPerl with the script you're editing and the output,
>errors, etc. are "piped" into Alpha windows. In other words,
>MacPerl seems more like a "plugin" for Alpha. I don't have to
>launch MacPerl - Alpha does this for me automatically and closes
>it back down when I'm done.  Since I don't have a licensed copy
>of BBEdit, I don't know if it can work this way too. To me, this
>seems more intuitive.

As stated, BBEdit can do this with Brad Hanson's Perl plugins.


>Even cooler; Alpha can use a MacPerl script as a built-in filter
>to operate on whatever text you choose. I've added a number of
>filters.

BBEdit can do this too, with the Perl Filters tool/plugin, also available
with Brad's BBEdit Perl plugins.

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