Re: [MacPerl] BBEdit bugs seen by others ?

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 20:09 +1000 3/15/2000, Danny Thomas wrote:
>1) the syntax colouring can get confused. Now one can't blame BBEdit too
>much for this because perl does not have a formal grammar, still it's
>annoying when the miscolouring extends over dozens, even hundreds of lines.
>What's more sometimes adding and removing a space character fixes the
>colouring!
>
>Here's one example of a line causing this problem:
>        $last =~ tr/\[\{A-I/001-9/;
>
My solution to this sort of problem (the perl-modes in the emacs versions
we use at work have similar problems) is to append a comment with suitable
closing mates to the opened element.   For this example, #}]  is apt to
work out OK...I generally note the reason I'm doing it as part of the
comment.  For emacs perl-mode, it's more serious than bogus coloring:  the
auto tabbing and brace matching fail as well, and that's a wonderful
indicator that one has recently typed something wrong.

My troubles are usually with ", where the comment should be fine in
BBEdit...I think a comment worked with at least one grouper as well (even
though it "shouldn't").

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>3) the list under the function pop-up is often truncated. In some
>   cases files with dozens of functions have an empty pop-up list!

My one instance of that in BBEdit was solved as in #1 above.

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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