Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl future, was: README

[Rich Lafferty <rich@alcor.concordia.ca>]

Quoting Axel Rose (rose@sj.com) from Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:57:49PM +0200:
> 
> MacOS X is shipped with two text editors: "TextEdit" and "Emacs 20.x".
> Forget "TextEdit" - it can only save in RTF format.
> When opening files with emacs you have to have Unix line breaks.

This is very unusual -- emacs should understand any of \n, \r,
and \r\n (unix, mac, windows -- that's "linefeed" \n, not perl) as
line breaks. If the emacs that comes with OS X doesn't do that, I'd
recommend building it from pristine sources.

> European extra characters aren't converted.

Emacs' internationalization support is very robust; again, I think it'd
be a good idea to rebuild emacs and complain loudly to Apple.

  -Rich

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