Re: [MacPerl] Editors

[David Young <dyoung@cabletron.com>]

On 7/28/98 8:16 AM 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,

Yes, BBEdit does this as well. You need some BBEdit plugins (Run Perl, 
Check Perl Syntax) to do it though.

>Trying to avoid evangelical opinions, I'd be interested in the
>honest assessments of people who have tried and evaluated both.
>This might be useful to others contemplating which editor to get...

I have been using BBEdit for a while, I tried Alpha, being interested in 
using a more Emacs-like editor, and it just seemed buggy to me. After 3 
crashed on an otherwise stable machine, I stopped trying to use it.

Also, I found BBEdit's Save/Open via FTP better integrated and more 
intuitive than Alpha's way of doing it.

--David

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