Editors that use embedded Perl as their macro language?

[Dean Hannotte]

I have been using Mansfield Software's KEDIT, which was based on IBM's
XEDIT, every day for 25 years. I love it, but the macro language is a
lifeless subset of Rexx. Does anyone know if any serious text editors use
embedded Perl as their macro language? That would be insanely great.

Dean Hannotte
http://www.hannotte.net

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[Tad McClellan]

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Please use a proper sig-dash in your posts.

There is supposed to be a space character after the hyphens.

currently it is '(e-mail address removed)'.

No it isn't, that is not the address in your From header.


A seven-line .sig is excessive too, consider limiting it to four
lines like everybody else does.

 

[ioneabu]

Please use a proper sig-dash in your posts.

There is supposed to be a space character after the hyphens.

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How's my sig?
I didn't know there were rules for it.
wana
(e-mail address removed) (don't bother to e-mail, spam or not, it all goes in
the trash)

 

[Tad McClellan]

There *is no* sig in your post.

A sig is identified by a sig-dash, and since you don't have one,
there is no sig.

There is supposed to be a space character after the hyphens.

 

[ioneabu]

There *is no* sig in your post.

A sig is identified by a sig-dash, and since you don't have one,
there is no sig.

There is supposed to be a space character after the hyphens.

I promise you that I did put the space in when I typed it. I wasn't
trying to be funny by leaving the space out. Possibly Google filtered
it out.

As a test, I will type 5 numbered lines with the leading digit followed
by a number of spaces corresponding to the digit (example: "5 " but
without the quotes).

1
2
3
4
5

If there are no spaces following the above digits, then Google has
removed them. Is this a space saving technique?

wana (no more attempts at a proper sig for now)

 

[Tad McClellan]

Possibly Google filtered
it out.

Which is why I have all posts from Google scored down into oblivion.

As a test, I will type 5 numbered lines with the leading digit followed
by a number of spaces corresponding to the digit (example: "5 " but
without the quotes).

1
2
3
4
5

If there are no spaces following the above digits, then Google has
removed them.

Google removed them.

 

[burlo.stumproot]

I have been using Mansfield Software's KEDIT, which was based on IBM's
XEDIT, every day for 25 years. I love it, but the macro language is a
lifeless subset of Rexx. Does anyone know if any serious text editors use
embedded Perl as their macro language? That would be insanely great.

Dean Hannotte
http://www.hannotte.net

Emacs, kind of...
Read "Customizing Emacs with Perl"
at http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/03/31/lightning2.html

 

[usenet]

Emacs, kind of...
Read "Customizing Emacs with Perl"
at http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/03/31/lightning2.html

vile (and xvile) a vi clone uses perl as its scripting language. It's
been my editor of choice for many years now on Solaris, Linux and
Windows PCs.