Re: [OT] Linux VPN server / Mac windows clients | perl on a Mac editors

From: Jan Eden (lists_at_jan-eden.de)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:08:35 +0100
To: Paul Kraus <pkraus@pelsupply.com>

Paul Kraus wrote:

>Now back to our regularly scheduled program... What are some decent
>perl Mac editors? Can you tell I just purchased a Mac :) I love
>emacs but it seems so far I am only able to run it under a terminal
>window. I like how everything in Mac uses the same movement commands
>as emacs.
>

Welcome, fellow Mac user. Apart from the usual suspects available for Mac OS X (emacs, vi...), I highly recommend BBEdit. It's advertised mainly as an HTML editor, but I use it for Perl and LaTeX, too. Very clean interface, and many smart features (<http://www.barebones.com>). You can even define Perl filters to apply to your documents and run scripts in the Terminal right from BBEdit. Well done integration with the OS's UNIX underpinnings.

AppleScript is nice for glueing different apps together in Mac OS, but I never spent enough time to get acquainted with it. It's definitely much slower than Perl. And you get Perl 5.8.2 with any new Mac (with Mac OS 10.3, that is)! Just make sure to install all developer tools (XCode CD) to get perldoc (something I recently learned on this list).

>Is there anything I need to be aware of with using perl on a Mac?
>Should I take the time to learn "apple script" what ever that is. I
>would rather stick with my trusty perl :)

HTH,

Jan 

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