Re: [MacPerl] shuck suggestions

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 20.45 -0400 1998.09.25, Xah Lee wrote:
>* Add a "reload" command to the menu, so that package developer can
>easily see the update of his file that is  package and documentation in one.

I'd like this.

>* Add the file names to the section. (e.g. perlmod) , so that we
>know which description correspond to which file. (in most references,
>the file names are mentioned.)

Not so much a Shuck issue.  Regardless, this script will do as you ask.  :-)

It copies the existing Help file (unless it has already been copied), then
changes the menu names, then quits MacPerl.  Restart MacPerl (and/or Shuck)
to see the new names in the menu.

#!perl -w
use DB_File;
use File::Copy;

$file = "$ENV{MACPERL}MacPerl Help";  # data stored in Help file, a DBM
unless (-e "$file.old") {             # only make copy if copy does not exist
  copy($file, "$file.old") or die $!;
}

tie(%s, 'DB_File', $file, O_RDWR, 0644) or die $!;
$s{' MENU'} =~ s|^(.*)\t(.*/((?:mac)?perl[^/]*)\.pod)$|$1 ($3)\t$2|mg;
                                      # fun with regexes!
untie(%s);                            # clean up nicely
MacPerl::Quit(2);                     # quit MacPerl app
__END__

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