Re: [MacPerl] Problems opening large scripts

[Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:13:21 +0000, Amitava Basu wrote:

>I have a reasonably large perl script which I am unable to
>open with MacPerl.
>
>Can anyone suggest if there is a way of opening large
>scripts with MacPerl Editor.

No. MacPerl's built in editor has the same limitation as Simpletext: the
text edit control (the window in which you type) has a maximum of about
32000 characters. You need to use an external editor, one that can
handle such large files -- not Simpletext or Teachtext. Several are
available for free, for example BBEdit Lite. Once this is defined as
your editor for text files in Internet Config, section "Helpers", then
you can use a menu in MacPerl to select a file, this may be a droplet,
which, after conversion to a temporary text file, will be opened in that
editor. The text for that menu name will be the name of the editor. The
menu item is the first one, "Edit", shortcut command-E.

-- 
	Bart.

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