In the process of my continued work on my own noding system, I implemented something that I thought was quite useful. Useful enough that I think strong consideration should be given to implementing the same thing here (Perlmonks) and perhaps Everything2.

What I did was simply add a "Upload body from file" button in all of my "add item" pages. In my case, I added a: 

print "Load from local file:: <input type=file name=fileupload>";

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in the form for posting, and then added: 
if ($cgi->param("fileupload")) {
    my $fh=$cgi->param("fileupload");
    my $buff;
    local $_;
    $buff.=$_ while sysread($fh,$_,4096);
    $cgi->param("body",$buff);
}

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in my main handler (body being the name of the textarea in my form, of course).

The reason I think this should be added to Perlmonks is the sheer volume of code that gets posted here. The usefulness of uploading your source then, hitting preview and then adding descriptive text is just, well, too useful to ignore :)

So, those that are capable of this mod, think about it. Thank you!

In reply to File upload during post by mr.nick

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