Alan Fry wrote:
>I seriously wonder if the effort would be justified. MacPerl works
>so well with those external text editors that support MacPerl
>...
>Eliminating the text editor from MacPerl would ease the maintenance
>load a little perhaps? Maybe MacPerl could be distributed with a
>free 'Lite' version of an external text editor as an option?
If I correctly recall, one of the design goals of Perl is to make
easy things easy and hard things possible. In that context, I very
much appreciate having both the built in editor of the current
MacPerl _and_ the excellent linkage to BBEdit*. When I want to test
a bit of syntax or knock out a small script, I usually use the
MacPerl editor. When I am going to spend more than a few minutes on
a script, I use BBEdit and then very much appreciate the integration.
Why do I need both? In my experience, such "convenience" issues are
not very susceptible to logical analysis but need to be decided on
experience. The above is my experience.
So, as a total parasite luser, I would humbly beg that some sort of
built-in editor be retained if at all convenient; it needn't be that
great, the current editor is just fine for how I use it.
-David-
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* NO EDITOR WARS!! I admit it, your editor is better :-) I happen
to use BBEdit so that's what I talk about here.
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