04-11-2009, 11:27 AM

I installed perl but I cannot save as .pl its always bla.pl .rtf

I'm saving with TextEdit. How can I save as .pl?

04-11-2009, 11:48 AM

Perl is installed by default .

You should be using an editor more suited for the job. I recommend something like Smultron although you could look into using something like TextMate, BBEdit, TextWrangler or even Eclipse with EPIC (Perl dev env for Eclipse).

The problem with TextEdit is that it is a rich text editor which will greatly problematize your code as the files you save will be saved with rich text. You need to save your files as plain text which is easily done with the aforementioned editors.

04-11-2009, 01:15 PM

So when I get one of the above save as.... plain text? thanks.

04-11-2009, 02:19 PM

Usually there's an option to use UTF-8 encoding or something like that.

04-11-2009, 09:50 PM

Yes, you need to save your scripts as plain text. If you use an editor for programming, this will be the default.

04-11-2009, 10:33 PM

vi is also installed by default

Course, it's not as visual as it's name would suggest.

04-12-2009, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Dysfunction

vi is also installed by default

Course, it's not as visual as it's name would suggest.

So is emacs but we shouldn't be frustrating him anymore than he already is .

04-12-2009, 05:20 PM

So are less, more, nano, vim, and pico....aren't they?

04-12-2009, 08:58 PM

nano/pico are pretty straightforward as all the shortcuts are listed at the bottom of the screen. less/more just show the contents of a file.