At 4:56 PM -0600 11/19/01, Andy Berkvam wrote:
>   What about the WASTE text editing library?  It would add most or all of
>the basic editing features that people are asking for, it would leave the
>fancy stuff (brace matching, syntax highlighting, etc.) to the external
>editors that are already built to do those things, it's free, and the
>majority of the work has been done.  I have never used it myself so I
>don't know how hard it would be to plug it into MacPerl.
>
>   http://www.merzwaren.com/waste/

Alan Fry actually did some work on this, but hasn't published 
anything with it yet.

I don't know if he's still actively working on it or not.

-Jeff Lowrey

>On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>>  The subject has come up before, as some have noted.  Where it was left:
>>  Alan Fry was looking into the possibility of editor improvements, and it
>>  was decided that unless someone else (i.e., not me) did them, they probably
>>  wouldn't be done, since I have limited time, and want to work on the core
>>  MacPerl with that limited time.
>>
>>  I agree that there are a few things that could be done to improve the
>>  editor, especially ones recently mentioned.  To that, all I can say is
>>  Patches Welcome (as long as they work well, of course :-).
>>
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