Re: [MacPerl] BBEdit & MacPerl

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

On 2/19/1999 at 15:55, SeanC@mediatek.co.za (Sean Carte) wrote:

> I've come across an interesting effect of using BBEdit with MacPerl.
> 
> Save a script in BBEdit and then switch to MacPerl.
> Make changes there and save them.
> Close the MacPerl document.
> Close the BBEdit document.
> Open the MacPerl document.
> 
> -- The changes made in MacPerl are gone!

I think that this is more of a BBEdit issue than anything else. You might ask
Bare Bones for a detailed explanation, but BBEdit uses system (rather than its
own) memory to open documents and I suspect that the original file on disk is
effectively locked and in a priority read only state altho other apps don't seem
to know that. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I think that the
same thing was true of Vantage. What's weird is that if you open a script in
Nisus Writer 5.13, then open the same script in BBEdit and make changes, save in
BBEdit and close both copies, then open it again in Nisus, the BBEdit changes do
stick.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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