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Re: [MacPerl] Comments and questions from a new user



On Sun, 24 Oct 99 15:29:42 -0700, someone going by the name of Brian McNett
<webmaster@mycoinfo.com> scribbled:

>Most of the more experienced MacPerlers use an external editor such as
>BBEdit or Alpha, rather than MacPerl's built-in editor.  Perl support in
>BBEdit is nothing short of spectacular, and Alpha's no slouch either.  I
>practically LIVE in BBEdit.  Once you've had syntax-coloring,
>single-click access to both MacPerl and Shuck, and the ability to run
>perl scripts as BBEdit filters, you'll never edit scripts directly within
>MacPerl again.

Actually, I do use BBEdit Lite (have for years), and you have now just
reminded me to go download those plug-ins that I found earlier.  Thanks.
(No syntax-coloring in Lite, but I think most of the rest is there.)

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