[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Correia) wrote:
>On 3:38 PM 2/25/01 "Ken Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> For me, speed isn't the issue. It's the fact that MacPerl and BBEdit
>> are two seperate applications, and you can't have both in front at the
>> same time. It makes it very difficult to kill a background app that's
>> out of control
>
>Well this has improved. It used to be very difficult to kill a MacPerl
>task in progress. Now (I don't remember if this was 6.0+ or happened
>before that) the progress dialog allows you to switch out to MacPerl,
>nuke the script with command-., etc. It isn't ideal, but in the current
>world of MacPerl and external editors, it is the best we can do.
Aha. I'm still using 5.1.1, and it has no such progress dialog. Just a
spinning beach ball. Perhaps this is a good reason to upgrade.
>> and it means that I can't run interactive apps very
>> easily if I want to use BBEdit as my editor (which I do want to do).
>
>Define what you mean by interactively please.
Mostly I just mean using STDIN and STDOUT to ask questions and give
answers in the console window. I haven't used Mac-specific stuff very
much (dialogs, file finding dialogs, etc.) so I can't speak to how
smoothly that works when editing externally.
------------------- -------------------
Ken Williams Last Bastion of Euclidity
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Math Forum
