Re: [MacPerl] beginner's q...

[robinmcf@altern.org]

>>don't remember BBedit doing that kind of thing in it's LITE version (free
>>as in free speech in a dictatorship)
>Come now, that's unfair and inflammatory.

OK apologies to any BBedit supporters why may have been inflamed - let me
rephrase what I meant by that- the last time I saw BBedit lite (version
4.x)  it had certain features disactivated or not part of the package and
the only advatage it had (for me) over the MacPerl editor was it could edit
scripts of larger than 32k. It didn't colour code the text and it didn't
interact with MacPerl. Around about the time I needed such functionality I
found MPW and Alpha, both interesting because they are programmable
(customisable and extendible without requiring vast amounts of knowledge of
how they work) which (for me) gives me a certain feeling of freedom, oh and
also they are both very much less expensive than BBedit Pro (which may or
may not now offer the same features I found elsewhere).

I haven't tried BBedit5.x of either lite or Pro flavours, quite simply
because I don't feel the need to get aquianted with a new package that
offers me functionality I've already got.
The only thing as I said I would *really* like to see, is an editor written
in Perl, hopefully combined with your glue modules Chris, which,IMHO,
would simply make this discussion beyond redundant.

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