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If Helios ever get around to adding an editable macros feature, they should take a look at how the Zeus editor (zeusedit.com) implements this feature. It allows you to write macros scripts using Lua, Python, Java Script or the VbScript languages. It's macro scripting is very nicely done. Hmm, I'll ...

There are things I'd love to see in TP being updated: - more than 2 splits per window (or being able to get a New Window view of the same document). I'm finding increasing need for this one. - an actual macro scripting language (ecmascript maybe?). I can't even get their Save Macro thing to work so...

It won't happen.

I've been waiting for editable macros and VBA built into TextPad for more three years now. I'm glad I didn't hold my breath.

Hi I noticed that the first request for editable macros was in 4/26/2003. It's two years almost. Will this thing happen? I also want the macros be human readable. I cast my vote that the macro language be Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, or similar, as I'm very fluent in VB. But some kind of...

Hi I have a large collection of text files where all I need to do is insert a line into the first line of each file - so that it becomes the new first line. I'm basically adding a header line. The header line will be the same for every file. The first line of each text file is different. There is no...