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List:       jedit-users
Subject:    Re: [ jEdit-users ] Code formatter for Perl?
From:       "Pete Prodoehl" <pete.prodoehl () cygnusinteractive ! com>
Date:       2003-02-24 17:13:32
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Excellent! As a former BBEdit user, this is probably the one feature I 
miss most in jEdit.

thanks...

Pete

Slava Pestov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have this planned for a future release of the Console plugin...
> 
> On February 22, 2003 03:28 pm, Chris Petersen wrote:
> 
>>This discussion brings me back to a suggestion I had made a long time
>>ago.  BBEdit has had a great feature for a long time in its macperl
>>implementation, which could be greatly expanded on for any
>>commandline-capable OS..  Basically, it has "filters" (written in perl -
>>though with a command line OS, they could be in anything the OS can
>>handle) that act on the current buffer (or the current selection).
>>
>>BBEdit sends the current buffer/selection to the stdin of the filter,
>>and takes the stdout and replaces the buffer/selection with that.  This
>>should be really easy to implement in jEdit (or a plugin), and with
>>something like perltidy, should make all kinds of advances in buffer
>>formatting, since people could use whatever external formatter they
>>wanted.
>>
>>I really loved this feature of BBEdit, since I could write up a perl
>>script to do some massive regex find/replaces in sequence, and run it
>>whenever I wanted to...
>>
>>-Chris

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