The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications

The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications

Posted May 29, 2007 0:09 UTC (Tue) by tqk (guest, #29605)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications by roelofs
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications

> > You forgot about one of the simplest and easiest note-taking programs: cat!
>
> He did mention that he was restricting the field to graphical apps. It would be hard to argue that cat falls into that category (so to speak). ;-)

Port it to perl, and toss in perl::Tk? Here's what I use:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# ~/devl/perl/things.pl replaces ~/sh/things.sh; datestamps,
# separates, and pretty-prints entries.
#

use strict;
use warnings;

my $outfile = qq($ENV{HOME}/dox/things_to_remember.html);
my $now;
chomp( $now = qx(date) );

open( THINGS, ">> $outfile" ) ||
die qq($0: could not open $outfile for append: $!);

print THINGS q( <li> ) . $now . q(<br>) . "\n";
print THINGS q( <pre>) . "\n";

while( <STDIN> ) {
s/\</&lt;/g;
s/\>/&gt;/g;
print THINGS;
}

print THINGS q( </pre>) . "\n\n";
close( THINGS );

__END__

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