Hello:
While you can see here that I've had many suggestions for Pico-8, many of which have come to light:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=35330
I was thinking up one this morning called, "spawn."
Very simply you type in immediate mode, spawn
followed by the ENTER key and a new Pico-8 is loaded. No need to hunt down in Explorer or click the desktop icon if if it's not immediately available. I think this would be helpful for people such as myself who always has 3-4 Pico-8 frames open and being worked in.
It can have an argument too such as, spawn "project9"
Which would not only bring up a new Pico-8 but additionally load project9
if it is available in the default directory.
The command could instead be, reboot
which is already in use. Yet in this if you type reboot 0
or any other non-NIL value, it would bring up a new Pico-8 frame. Reboot could further use a filename such as "project9" above.
This may not be a good idea though as if anyone types reboot
without arguments it would reboot the current frame losing the work of whatever was there.
In all cases this method cannot be used in source-code, it is for immediate mode only.
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