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.

why not set up a global key combo to start pico-8?
I have Alt-F8

I just middle-click the taskbar icon. Opens a new, fresh copy of PICO-8. (Alternatively, if PICO-8 is within the first 10 icons on your taskbar, say the 6th, you can just hit Shift-Win-6 and it'll open another instance of PICO-8.)

Hi guys.

I guess it's possible to make a hot-key for that. Still, I like the idea being able to open a fresh tab and have the code you want loaded from the argument you fed in from a different task.