Re: [MacPerl] Default page

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

Robin asks:

> Can anybody suggest a way of getting Mac perl to open up a 
> default doc (already containing  the #!usr/local/bin/perl header) 
> when requested to open a new window? Currently I keep a doc on my
> desktop and double click it but this is starting to get to me
> when I've got about 20 windows open and just want to run off a
> short script (plus I don't always remember to use "Save As..").

Don't know if you can get MacPerl to do that for you, but there
are a couple of other things you can do. First, I must point out
that my version of MacPerl (5.2.0r4) doesn't handle drag&drop or
Stationary files. But, that's OK for me because I use Alpha. With
Alpha I can either create a template and set the Stationary flag
to force the creation of a new document, or (my preferred method)
use drag&drop to load a template. I use this feature quite a lot
for a number of different things. I keep little text clipping
files around with templates and snipets I reuse a lot. When I need
a template, I just drag&drop it onto my document. Each of my
templates has a name and I just Command-Drag them to the top of my
screen so I just have a bunch of tab-like file names across the
very top edge of my screen - easy to get at. I use Stickies with the window
shade up to do a similar thing for stuff that changes
occasionally.

Hope this helps.

jay

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