Re: [MacPerl] Text editors?

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

Detlef wrote:

> I was not successful in obtaining all of the MP output
> and error messages.

I don't understand this. Alpha pipes all of the error
messages and output from MacPerl to other Alpha windows.
You seem to be stressing the word "ALL", but I don't
appear to miss any errors or output??? I can't speak for
BBEdit, but I've never heard this complaint before.


> HOW can I get the same for colorful sizy styly scripty
> TexEdit

Again, I'm not sure of your point. If you're asking how
TextEdit can capture the output and error messages, the
answer is it can't. If you're asking can Alpha and BBEdit
automatically colorize or stylize your code or are they
scriptable, then the answer is yes.


> And it does not have a 32-k-restriction (but 64 k).

Both Alpha and BBEdit don't have limits on file size.
You're limited only by your available disk space.
This is important, since quite often my data files
are many megs deep and I still use my editor to verify
that the data is being written properly. I've yet to
create a perl script as big as 64K, but I don't find
that beyond the real of possibilities.


> It seams to me a pity that seemingly no one uses
> FileMaker as MacPerl Editor?!

Both Alpha and BBEdit are programmers editors. As such,
they have features that appeal to programmers. The
features are too numerous to list, and I don't want to
evangelize. I just don't understand your issues with these
editors (as stated) or your affinity to FileMaker as an
editor, for that matter.

jay

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