[Pythonmac-SIG] Forwarded: Christian Smith: MacPython and BBEdit

[Jack Jansen]

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Here is the message from BareBones that I referred to.

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Date:  Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:11:04 -0500
From:  Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
Subject:  MacPython and BBEdit
To:  Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
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Jack, I am contacting you since you are the maintainer of MacPython.

BBEdit has had syntax coloring for various languages for several years
now but one language we currently do not support and for which we get a
fair number of requests is Python. We recently (as of the release of
BBEdit 6.0) added support in BBEdit for extending the syntax coloring
via "language modules". These modules can also provide function
scanning.

Documentation for the API and sample code is available from our web site
at

<http://www.barebones.com/support/developer.html>

Perhaps you or someone you know would be interested in doing a Python
language module.

Another issue which comes up occasionally is the ability for BBEdit to
send data to MacPython for execution/checking (similar to what is
currently available with MacPerl). This integration between BBEdit and
MacPerl is handle by AppleEvents but there does not seem to be any sort
of support for this in MacPython. I think that this is something which
would greatly enhance the MacPython IDE and even better would be more
general support for external editors.

Any thoughts on this?

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Christian Smith  |  csmith@barebones.com  |  http://web.barebones.com

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