What is new in 0.2 ?

Release notes for version 0.2

The main focus of version 0.2 has been working with files and the system pasteboard from within the PerlPad application.

• startup file ~/Library/PerlPad/startup.pl
• taking input from pasteboard or a file
• looping over input (similar to Perl command line switches -n/-p)
• copying output to the pasteboard and/or a file
• evaluating input text to obtain $_
• Perl warnings are displayed
• New menu item to rebuild Services menu and choose keyboard shortcuts
• Application icon
• Documentation remade with HTML::WebMake

• PerlPad main window remembers its position
• you can use $a and $b in your snippets
• support Cocoa interface for System Services error messages (although Mac OS X does not make much use of that ...)
• check for required CPAN modules at startup and fail gracefully if they are missing
• $\, $., $, and such work now

• trying to use text foreign to the current locale results in nasty crash (CB limitation)
• $_ is not available when reading a file (only <$IN>)
• handling of references as evaluation results buggy
• the symbol table browser is not usable yet (will be focus of 0.3)