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

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 1.49 +0900 1999.08.07, robinmcf@altern.org wrote:
>>>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.

Most people who use BBEdit Lite enjoy things like better keyboard shortcut
support, line numbers, column numbers, search and replace, viewing of
invisibles, handling of arbitrarily large text (memory permitting), plugins
(to some degree), scriptability, etc.  You may not have found those
features valuable.  Others do.

But the point I meant to refer to was the part about "free speech as in a
dictatorship".  Bare Bones is under no obligation to give away BBEdit in
any form, and BBEdit Lite is a very nice tool for costing nothing, and I
thought your comment about dictatorship was unfair and inflammatory.


>I haven't tried BBedit5.x of either lite or Pro flavours, quite simply

Clarifications: There is no BBEdit Pro, there is BBEdit and BBEdit Lite.
There is no BBEdit Lite 5.x.  BBEdit 5.1.1 (and a demo of 5.1.1) and BBEdit
Lite 4.1.


>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.

I would not want an editor written in Perl.  I'd rather have an editor
written in C (or C++, Pascal, Objective C, etc.) with Perl hooks.  I cannot
imagine:

1. writing a text editor to replace a cool one that exists now
2. writing a high-performance text editor in Perl at all (my guess is it
would not be very fast, and until GUI hooks get better, the GUI wouldn't
look very good or perform very well)

BBEdit could have better MacPerl support, but that is mostly dependent on
MacPerl.  I'm looking forward to the possibilities presented by a Perl
shared library, allowing BBEdit (and other apps) to have a perl plugin to
directly access MacPerl.  That's what CodeWarrior does now.  The perl CW
plugin is available in CW Pro 5.  It has some problems, but it kinda works.
Alpha could do the same thing, too.  That is assuming a MacPerl shared
library becomes a reality (which I am really hoping for, and may in fact
happen).

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