Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Andy Holyer
On 2 Mar 2005, at 22:15, John Delacour wrote: At 9:45 pm + 2/3/05, Phil Dobbin wrote: I'm thinking that if he's not comfortable with pico maybe emacs is not the best idea... I'd love to hear a convincing explanation from someone why anyone would use such tools in preference to TextWrangler,

Malformed filenames

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Glaesemann
Hello, all! What I have is not a problem with perl on Mac OS X, but rather a problem on Mac OS X that I'd like to solve using perl. I'm not sure how to go about solving it, and am looking for suggestions. I have a number of files that were created on Windows that have Japanese characters in

Re: Malformed filenames

2005-03-03 Thread Kino
On 3 Mar 2005, at 20:48, Michael Glaesemann wrote: I have a number of files that were created on Windows that have Japanese characters in the file name. The files were sent to me zipped. When the zip archive is uncompressed with English as the main language under Mac OS X, the filenames are

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Peter == Peter N Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter This has been mentioned a few times, but of course TextWrangler/BBEdit Peter both support Edit via FTP/SFTP, so presuming you are SSHing to your Peter target machine, then you can easily edit remote files with Peter TextWrangler/BBEdit. And

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Ian == Ian Ragsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian If you want to stay with something free, I'd suggest TextWrangler from Ian Bare Bones: Ian http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml Ian It has good syntax coloring, and integrates well with the command-line Ian perl - you can

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Mar 3, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Ian == Ian Ragsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian If you want to stay with something free, I'd suggest TextWrangler from Ian Bare Bones: Ian http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml Ian It has good syntax coloring, and

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Pete Prodoehl
The Ghost wrote: I would urge all of you that have spoken so far to try out jEdit (http://jedit.org). What kind of geek would I be if I ignored an editor thread? ;) I also like jEdit, here are a few of the reasons: * Open-source (free as in speech) * Lots of nice plugins * Very customizable *

Any GUI tools that can set execute bit?

2005-03-03 Thread Tommy Nordgren
Are there any Graphical User Interface Tools that can set the executable bits in the file info on disk? Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace - Tommy Nordgren, The dying old crone

Re: Any GUI tools that can set execute bit?

2005-03-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 03/03/2005 @ 19:23 GMT, Tommy Nordgren, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: Are there any Graphical User Interface Tools that can set the executable bits in the file info on disk? Try XRay: http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/ Cheers, Regards, Phil.

Re: Any GUI tools that can set execute bit?

2005-03-03 Thread Bruce Van Allen
On 2005-03-03 Tommy Nordgren wrote: Are there any Graphical User Interface Tools that can set the executable bits in the file info on disk? Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace - Tommy Nordgren, The dying old crone I suggest SuperGetInfo from Barebones Software

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Walt Pawley
Mostly just because no one else mentioned it, I rather like to use Mahon's ee or aee. Almost no learning curve but much superior to pico, IMHO. If you must use a GUI version, and can tolerate X-windows, there's even an xee. I believe FreeBSD includes it as part of a nominal install. Rather wish

Re: Any GUI tools that can set execute bit?

2005-03-03 Thread John Delacour
At 8:23 pm +0100 3/3/05, Tommy Nordgren wrote: Are there any Graphical User Interface Tools that can set the executable bits in the file info on disk? You can make your own droplet to do this. Save the following script in Script Editor as an application (stay-open if you like) naming it

Growl, PerlObjCBridge, Glue, etc.

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Nandor
I just uploaded Mac::Growl to the CPAN. It is an interface to Growl. http://growl.info/ I mention it not because you should use Growl -- though you should -- but because it has some interesting and useful examples of how to use PerlObjCBridge in it.

Re: Malformed filenames

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Glaesemann
Resending, as I neglected to cc the list. On Mar 3, 2005, at 21:08, Kino wrote: On 3 Mar 2005, at 20:48, Michael Glaesemann wrote: I have a number of files that were created on Windows that have Japanese characters in the file name. The files were sent to me