On Dec 14, 2012, at 2:38 PM, András Murányi wrote:

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>
>To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>
>Cc: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@vt.edu>; 'pd-list' <pd-list@iem.at>
>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 11:53 AM
>Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-L2ork Features
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>That's nice for people who are used to doing that from Max/MSP.  I've never
>found a reason to want that feature, so I haven't implemented it.  Can someone
>explain how they use it?


You partly answered your own question.  Another reason is if you are mucking
around in the source you can just copy-paste it into a new patch instead of
closing, opening the file selector and choosing that file again.

Another reason is you can select the code off the browser and immediately
play with a patch off svn instead of saving it to a location and opening it.

Another reason is that you can throw text up on a pastebin for people
who you don't necessarily have an email address for (e.g., on IRC), and they can paste it
into a new patch instead of copy-pasting it into a text editor, choosing save,
choosing a save location, choosing "Open" in Pd, navigating to that same
location where they saved it, selecting it, and eventually deleting the patch
when their download directory is full of junk.


Makes sense.  

Another reason is that it makes super easy to exchange code snippets in email and on forums.

I find attachments are much less error prone for that, especially if you zip or tar.gz it.  It used to be that lots of mail clients sucked at MIME, but I think those dark days are past us, except for those who willing choose to be the darkness ;-)

.hc