🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm always full of ideas, but rarely have enough time to even begin on  
them all. This time, though, there is something that would be so useful  
that I figured I should share it. I'd do it myself, as it would be really  
easy, but unfortunately I am desperately pressed for programming time for  
the next five months.

The idea is this: a Services-only application, which I have dubbed "Peter  
Piper". It would take a selection and pass it through a UNIX pipe, just  
like in Edit, except it would work with any application. There would be  
access to the pasteboard. The things I would use it for are:

1) Quoting messages in Mail, a la MailHelper
2) Passing things through awk so that I could get, say, only the 3rd  
column in a whole tab-separated array of numbers
3) Appending something to my quotes file automatically
4) Non-text stuff?? Image processing?? Adding stuff to a sound database?  
Who knows?

That's just off the top of my head. It would make use of a file in my home  
directory, called something like .peterpiperc, to get the things to add to  
the menu.

I really would like to see this, as it would make my NeXT about, oh, maybe  
a zillion times more useful. I just can't do it until August at least.  
Really, it would only take about a day.

Maybe I'll do it anyway. But the idea is here, you don't even have to give  
me credit. Just do it! :-)

-Anthony