{"id":797,"date":"2004-03-11T19:36:06","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T00:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=797"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"affrus_10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/11\/affrus_10\/","title":{"rendered":"Affrus 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nLate Night Software, makers of the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\/sd3.0\/index.html\">Script Debugger<\/a>, has released a Perl editor and debugger called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\/affrus\/index.html\">Affrus<\/a>. I&rsquo;ve been trying it in beta form for a while, and am very impressed. The syntax coloring is smart. Affrus knows whether a variable is global (package) or local (<code>my<\/code>), and it shows this by coloring local variables orange and global ones black (and there are more colors, e.g. for cases like <code>$_<\/code>). This helps to remind me when I forget that Perl variables are not local by default, as in all the other scripting languages I use.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nAnother example: when you Control-click somewhere in the code, Affrus shows a pop-up menu listing the local variables that are in scope. It should go without saying that Affrus is AppleScriptable, attachable, and recordable, and that it supports Edit With BBEdit.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Night Software, makers of the excellent Script Debugger, has released a Perl editor and debugger called Affrus. I&rsquo;ve been trying it in beta form for a while, and am very impressed. The syntax coloring is smart. Affrus knows whether a variable is global (package) or local (my), and it shows this by coloring local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}