FYI - using atom to work with perl6
The problem described was a bug in the file-icon package of atom. The
regex for assigning an icon to perl was too loose and so perl6 files, in
some circumstances, were being associated with the perl5 icon.
On 14/10/18 01:37, Ahmad Zawawi wrote:
Can you ple
Can you please tell me what Perl / Perl 6 plugins are enabled in your Atom
environment (i.e. ~/.atom/packages)? I previously had some problems when
debugging my Atom plugins while language-perl was enabled. It has a
built-in perl6 grammar which conflicts with our language-perl6 atom plugin.
Regard
But there are quasi-standard APIs for accessing that information. In
particular, Javascript has access to such APIs.
And trying to do this without integrating with OS services has its own
complexities, like how you handle 'execute bit' on Windows which doesn't
have one. Which is why there are JS A
I don't think so. The icon is inside the panel of files available for
editing. Since atom is cross-OS it cannot rely on one desktop manager of
one OS.
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018, 02:10 Brandon Allbery, wrote:
> This will be part of the desktop manager (probably Gnome), not Atom. Check
> the context men
This will be part of the desktop manager (probably Gnome), not Atom. Check
the context menu for the icon in the file manager. I don't run Gnome so
don't know where they hide how you set it currently.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 5:20 AM Richard Hainsworth
wrote:
> I use atom to edit perl6 scripts bec
I use atom to edit perl6 scripts because of the nice perl6 syntax
highlighting. Also I came across Atom from this group.
Although files with .p6 or .pm6 have a nice camilea icon associated with
them, ...
... if I give a p6 file an exec bit, the icon changes to something like
an onion.
I'm
