RE: Using Perl in a Panther environment
RE: Using Perl in a Panther environment
- Subject: RE: Using Perl in a Panther environment
- From: Robert Denton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:37:48 -0800
Wow, BBEdit is almost 200 dollars. Does anyone know of an open source
alternative? If not then it looks like VIM is hands-down the way to go as
far text / perl script editing goes.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Weil [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 4:38 PM
> To: Robert Denton
> Cc: 'email@hidden'
> Subject: Re: Using Perl in a Panther environment
>
>
> You should give BBEdit a try
> (http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml). It
> isn't free,
> but it's by far the favorite all-purpose text editor on the Mac. It
> supports regular text, HTML, and a plethora of other
> languages such as
> C, C++, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, BASH scripts, Perl, PHP, regular
> expressions, XML, and a lot more which I can't think of off
> the top of
> my head.
>
> OS X comes with built in Perl support along with Apache, so you can
> easily test all of your perl scripts either from the command line, or
> by accessing your scripts via web pages using the address
> http://localhost/path/to/script.pl
>
> It is very easy to develop web applications on the Mac,
> probably moreso
> than on a PC since OS X comes with everything you need right
> out of the
> box (minus BBEdit, of course).
>
> Hope that helps.
> - Marc Weil
>
> On Jan 19, 2004, at 6:59 PM, Robert Denton wrote:
>
> > Hello xcode users. I am a recent convert and I need some advice
> > regarding
> > the best way to create and test perl scripts in Panther. Is
> > xtools/xcode
> > good for this? Does anyone recommend any particular
> application? For
> > example, in a windows environment you can use a freeware app called
> > Crimson
> > Editor which is aware of perl syntax and can color code your script
> > for you
> > and it also provides a way to test your scripts. I hope
> there is such
> > a
> > convenient way to write perl scripts on a mac. TIA, Robert.
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