Re: [MacPerl] Text editors?

[Richard Cook <rscook@socrates.berkeley.edu>]

robinmcf@altern.org wrote:
> 
> >Greetings Perlophiles,
> >
> >When I set mac perl's editor to TexEdit+
> ><http://www.nearside.com/trans-tex/>, I can edit the current script by
> >typing com-shift-e, which simply opens a copy in TE+. What I'd like is a
> >direct way to either switch back to perl to run the modified script, or
> >even better, actually run the script from within TE+. I seem to recall
> >that BBEdit(Lite?) could do this? What editors do people prefer? I'm
> >mainly interested in being able to see invisibles, check byte values,
> >add/strip comments ... Any suggestions, recommendations?
> 
> You hear a lot about BBedit on this list but I suggest you try Alpha and
> see which you prefer. Suffice to say what you can do in one you can do in
> the other including what you've asked here, except Alpha is shareware (ie
> you can get a fully functioning app to try), have a look here if you want
> more info about it or where to download it:
> http://www.bcity.com/alphatext
> 
> What I like about Alpha more than BBedit is the fact it's entirely open
> source, if you don't like the way something is implimeted in the app you
> can change it, this includes menus, menu items and so on.
> 

I already own TE+ ... and have heard that Alpha doesn't handle things
like 2-byte text properly? TE+ does Chinese pretty well ...

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