[sf-perl] perl on a mac

[Dave Turner]

Walt - just saw this on Digg.com and thought it might help you with the
editor choice you were pondering the other day:
http://sixrevisions.com/tools/12-excellent-free-text-editors-for-coders/

HTH!




Walt Sanders wrote:
> Thanks much, I will play with these suggestions.  Have to leave just
> now, but later.
>
> Isn't there a nice editor for the Mac that will run perl browser style
> within the editor?  Had a nice one on my PC (DZSoft, a russian
> product) that worked beautifully.  Really miss the convenience of that
> program.
>
> Walt.
>
>
>
> On Monday, at , Alex Feinberg wrote:
>
>> Terminal executes the script. Terminal can't render HTML. Web
>> browser can only render HTML, it can't execute scripts.
>>
>> You need to have a web server setup and configured to execute CGI
>> scripts/mod_perl for that. How to do that will probably be beyond a
>> single message, but OS X includes Apache which is the de-facto
>> standard for web servers.
>>
>> Or you can use command redirection to test, e.g.:
>>
>>  perl  myscript.pl > /tmp/file.html && open /tmp/file.html
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>
>> On Monday, 10 November 2008 at 11:49:06 -0800, Walt Sanders wrote:
>>> I'm new to apple machines and have had no luck getting my perl
>>> programs to run.  Had no problem with my previous PC machines.  I have
>>> BBEdit and Dreamweaver and Komodo, but nothing works.  Must be some
>>> obvious thing that I don't know?
>>>
>>> Specifically, I need to run html generating perl programs on a browser
>>> on my machine for testing.  All I get is the code in the browser.
>>>
>>> If I run perl in Terminal, it runs ok, so long as there is no html.
>>> In the case of html, it just lists the code.
>>>
>>> Grateful for whatever, Walt.
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