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by Derek K.
Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:16 am
Forum: General
Topic: Run an external program on a selection?
Replies: 7
Views: 430

:idea: Have you considered a macro that would be run after you have made the selection? How would this macro invoke an external program on my selection? I already have a command-line program that does what I want, and it's much too complicated to express as a macro, so I can't convert my program to ...
by Derek K.
Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Run an external program on a selection?
Replies: 7
Views: 430

Run an external program on a selection?

It's great that I can run an external program on a saved file and capture the output, but it would be even better if I could run a command on a selection instead of the whole file. I imagine that behind the scenes TextPad could copy the selected text, place it in a new (temporary) document, save the ...