Re: [MacPerl] Text editors?

[robinmcf@altern.org]

detlef@lindenthal.com wrote:
>How can I utilize your >>>ALPHA and >>>BBEdit tricks for >>>TexEdit and
>>>>FileMaker?
As far as discussing tricks and editors and bandwidth dedicated thereof,
which appears to be the main thrust of your post,  in a previous post I
sent this:

quoting myself:
>Actually on the spur of the moment I went to the MacPerl archives and did a
>keyword search for the following - 'BBedit', 'Alpha', 'MPW':
>the results were as follows
>BBedit -1126 hits
>Alpha - 441 hits
>MPW- 886 hits

so please be a bit more accurate with your sarcasm and check the archives
before posting :-). I too download postings talking about things which have
nothing to do with how I use MacPerl, but that's the logistics of
majorities.

>Are you successful in receiving ALL error messages and ALL output from
>MacPerl in your
>beloved Editor?
Talking as myself and not a spokesperson for any group, official or not - I
said in another post (regarding 8-bit characters and Alpha ) I don't use
Alpha to view the script output, I set it to make MacPerl the foremost app
when running scripts, and as of yet I haven't found the need to find
another way of dealing with this. BBedit I don't use, so I don't know

>And if so:   HOW can I get the same for colorful sizy styly scripty TexEdit?
I don't know, I don't use text edit.

>It seams to me a pity that seemingly no one uses FileMaker as MacPerl Editor?!
>FM is ideal, especially if you have many skripts and versions and you want
>to keep
>overview. And it does not have a 32-k-restriction (but 64 k).
why not explain how to set it up so that it will do this? as I for one will
change if I find an editor that does the job better than the one I use at
the moment. However one thing I will say about Alpha regarding keeping tabs
on scripts, is it is able to update script version numbers if you use the
internal formatting of Alpha itself - in other words you can define a
script header which includes Alpha recognised variables and each time you
save the document Alpha will increment the version number.

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