I just found a cool app for Mac OS X called PerlPad. It allows Perl code to be run as a Mac OS X service, which allows you to do all sorts of cool Perl-ish things on-the-fly using input from just about anything such as the clipboard, an HTML textbox, text editor, etc. Definitely check it out if you're a Mac user.

If anybody's using PerlPad already, how about posting some cool snippets you use with it?

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Re: PerlPad for Mac OS X
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 28, 2004 at 01:50 UTC

    A similar app that might be of interest is DropScript which lets you turn a perl program into an app you can drop files onto.

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Re: PerlPad for Mac OS X
by educated_foo (Vicar) on Jul 28, 2004 at 20:41 UTC
    Sorry, no cool snippets. I basically use it for s/// loops when I'mforced to edit text outside of Emacs (e.g. editing this reply). WhenI installed it, I honestly expected to use it more than I have.

    Update: Actually, I have found a use for it. This little nasty in ~/Library/PerlPad/startup.pl lets me use Emacs to edit PM posts: 

    #!/usr/bin/env perl

use File::Temp 'tempfile';

register_function 'emacsify',
q{
    my ($fh, $f) = tempfile;
    print $fh $_;
    close $fh;
    open OSA, "|osascript " or die $!;
    my $osa = <<EOS;
-- set theapp to path to frontmost application as string
tell application "Emacs" to activate
do shell script "emacsclient '$f'"
-- tell application theapp to activate
EOS
    print OSA $osa;
    close OSA or die $!;
    open IN, "$f";
    unlink $f;
    undef $/;
    $_ = <IN>;
    close IN;
    s/^(.{70,80})\n/$1/gm;
    $_;
};

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Re: PerlPad for Mac OS X
by bageler (Hermit) on Jul 30, 2004 at 17:12 UTC
    just installed it, this rules!!! Now I can execute the code from PM in-place :)
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